The Deep End (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tilda Swinton & Goran Visnjic | |
Performer: | Jonathan Tucker, Raymond J. Barry, Peter Donat, Jordan Dorrance, Tamara Hope & Josh Lucas | |
Directed by | Scott McGehee & David Siegel | |
Edited by | Lauren Zuckerman | |
Screenwriting by | Scott McGehee & David Siegel | |
Composition by | Peter Nashel | |
Produced by | David Siegel & Scott McGehee | |
Director of Photography: | Giles Nuttgens |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
The Deep End does what too few films even attempt -- it takes an ordinary life and places it in an extraordinary situation just believable enough to be terrifying.
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Detroit News
Rating: 2/5 --
Its overall attempts at re-igniting the unsettling ambience of old-fashioned film noir are let down by a potholed plot and poor characterisation.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The Deep End is an unconventional thriller with unconventional characters, unconventional actors and an unconventional pace. That serves the movie quite well.
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7M Pictures
Rating: B+ --
As the protective mother, the brilliant Tilda Swinton elevates this well-directed neo-noir way above its status as a loose remake of the 1949 Max Ophuls's Reckless Moment.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3/4 --
For the most part ... the filmmakers and performers invest a high level of intelligence and sympathy into The Deep End.
Chicago Tribune
...Tilda Swinton gives a fierce performance...
Sight and Sound
...A thoughtful, cleanly etched [film]....Tilda Swinton's brilliantly low-key performance gives the film its dramatic anchor...
Film Comment
Product Description:
Tilda Swinton is riveting as Margaret Hall, a conscientious mom raising a family in Lake Tahoe who is entangled in a web of blackmail. While she frets over transporting her kids to ballet and baseball practice, she worries that her teenage son, Beau (Jonathan Tucker), is involved in a sleazy nightclub life in nearby Nevada. Margaret's husband is a Naval officer who is often away at sea, so she is alone in rearing her family. When Beau gets into a car accident with his gay lover, Darby (Joshua Lucas), after a night of partying in Reno, Margaret takes matters into her own hands and tells Darby to stay away from her son. A few days later Darby shockingly turns up dead next to her boathouse. Shortly thereafter, mysterious Alek (Goran Visnjic of the television series ER) comes to Margaret's door armed with an incriminating video of her son and Darby and threatens to go to the police if she doesn't pay him $50,000. The film's mystery and tension mount as the plot twists and turns--in one scene Tilda Swinton's captivating eyes frantically look on as the strangely tormented Goran Visnjic performs CPR in an emergency worthy of ER.
Directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee, famous for their inventive first feature, SUTURE, trade idiosyncrasy for atmosphere using Giles Nuttgens's fluid cinematography--which oozes with mystery in cool blues and refracted light--to set the frightening and suspenseful mood of THE DEEP END.
Directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee, famous for their inventive first feature, SUTURE, trade idiosyncrasy for atmosphere using Giles Nuttgens's fluid cinematography--which oozes with mystery in cool blues and refracted light--to set the frightening and suspenseful mood of THE DEEP END.