The Deep End of the Ocean
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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critics What's this?

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6.7 out of 10

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  • Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg
  • Summary: In the middle of a crowded hotel lobby Beth Cappadora (Pfeiffer) looks away for a moment-and in that moment lives every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son Ben disappears. This film portrays the joyful and wrenching experiences of Beth and her husband Pat (Williams) when Ben mysteriously and miraculously reappears nine years later, at the age of twelve, a happily adopted child with no memory of his real parents. (Sony)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 28
  3. Negative: 5 out of 28
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Emanuel Levy
    80
    Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams give such magnetic performances that they elevate the film way above its middlebrow sensibility and proclivity for neat resolutions.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    60
    Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama -- the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    60
    Ends up insisting on pat and overly tidy resolutions that are at variance with the emotional chaos it's nominally attempting to convey. [12 March 1999, Calendar, p.F-1]
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  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    A painfully stolid movie that lumbers past emotional issues like a wrestler in a cafeteria line, putting a little of everything on his plate.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
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  3. Negative: 2 out of 5
  1. AgustinA.
    10
    Is a excellent movie with an excellent plot a history that catches to the spectator at any moment the truth is that I recommend it.
  2. AliBenzekri
    2
    This should be made for television to watch after lunch if you have nothing to do instead .
    The story is so emotional but they failed to tra    nsform it to an acceptable movie… Expand

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