Movie

The Deep End

2001 · 101 min

A slow-burning, tense thriller that keeps you on edge as a mother's desperate protectiveness spirals into moral compromise.

Tagline: How far would you go to protect your family?
Overview: With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, isolation, sexuality, guilt
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: tensestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
isolation
sexuality
guilt
class
Places: single country house
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild