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The Deep End of the Ocean

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The Deep End of the Ocean

Alexa Vega, Brenda Strong, John Kapelos, John Roselius, Jonathan Jackson

Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer) is at her high school reunion when her 3-year-old son disappears from his brother's care. The little boy never turns up, and the family has to deal with the devastat...( read more  read more... )ing guilt and grief that goes along with it. Nine years later, the family has relocated to Chicago. By a sheer fluke, the kid turns up, living no more than two blocks away. The authorities swoop down and return the kid to his biological parents, but things are far from being that simple. The boy grew up around what he has called his father, while his new family are strangers to him; the older son, now a teenager, has brushes with the law and behavioral problems. His adjustment to his lost brother is complicated by normal teenage churlishness, and the dad (Treat Williams) seems to expect everything to fall into place as though the family had been intact all along. It's a tightrope routine for actors in a story like this, being careful not to chew the scenery while at the same time not being too flaccid or understated. For the most part, the members of the cast deal well with the emotional complexity of their roles. Though the story stretches credulity, weirder things do happen in the real world. The family's pain for the first half of the film is certainly credible, though the second half almost seems like a different movie. Whoopi Goldberg plays the detective assigned to the case; casting her is a bit of a stretch, but she makes it work. All in all, a decent three-hanky movie in the vein of Ordinary People. --Jerry Renshaw

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  • thmtsang
    August 11, 2007
    thmtsang
    Moving story about a family who's son disappears but thye find him years later. Brilliant performance by Michelle.
  • cartersimo
    January 28, 2007
    cartersimo
    Pretty good movie one..the girls will love.
  • nuheart
    January 5, 2007
    nuheart
    TV movie fare. Not bad, but nothing more than average.
  • dreamfaeries
    November 7, 2006
    dreamfaeries
    Michelle did a great job in this.
  • RiderOfTheStorms
    October 18, 2006
    RiderOfTheStorms
    not as good as i thought it would be. I think the story could've been deeper.
  • mojo00
    December 21, 2009
    mojo00
    This is a movie about the worst possible scenario for a parent. Losing a child.
    The Deep End of the Ocean is a story about loving, forgetting and forgiving. It's a story about loss, but at the same time not accepting the loss, instead trying to remember the day everything went h...( read more)orribly wrong.
    I thought everyone acted spectacularly well in this magical drama about trying to make everything just the way it once was, even though nine years have passed.
    It's a story about getting to know someone that you've known all your life, but at the same time you know nothing about them.
    It's also a story about making everything the same, even though everything deep down just never will be the same anymore...
  • avp60685
    August 12, 2009
    avp60685
    A sweet but sad story of a mother who is determined to find her missing son. She finds him years later and has to how deal with her other son with the return of her missing son.
  • almiracastro
    August 8, 2009
    almiracastro
    For a parent, losing a child is the unthinkable. Nothing can assuage the guilt or the void.

    The only way a parent can cope is to survive day-by-day and use distractions to keep the buried memories from welling up and drowning him or her.

    It is bad enough when a child is killed,...( read more) but what if the child disappears, is kidnapped, stolen? The uncertainty, the not knowing if that child is alive or dead, can be so overwhelming that a parent can cease to function as a parent and merely exist. Like the child, the parent disappears, but it is into the self.
    "The Deep End of the Ocean" is intelligent, adult drama.
  • soling1012
    July 13, 2009
    soling1012
    All is well in the end, but the things you are going through are things that you don't want to imagine. I cried a lot here, back then.
  • lizethlara78
    May 26, 2009
    lizethlara78
    esta me hizo llorar!
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