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  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

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 ...

Directed By: Ulu Grosbard

Written By: Jacquelyn Mitchard, Stephen Schiff

  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 1999
  • PG-13
  • Columbia Pictures
  • 1 h 46 m

The Deep End of the Ocean

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
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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 ...

Directed By: Ulu Grosbard

Written By: Jacquelyn Mitchard, Stephen Schiff

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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57% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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57% Mixed
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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.
By Emanuel Levy FULL REVIEW
63
About two faces of healing.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW

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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]
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
50
Should have worked on our emotions like a scalpel, made us cry and bleed. But, though it's an affecting, polished film, it's not satisfying. [12 March 1999, Friday, p.A]
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
50
Heavy-handed melodrama that rises above its manipulative trappings on the solid performances of the cast.
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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.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
10
It has the overwhelming stench of a film afflicted by star ego -- Michelle Pfeiffer is never wrong, which is exactly what is wrong with The Deep End of the Ocean.
By Stephen Hunter FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Columbia Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment, Via Rosa Productions
Release Date Mar 12, 1999
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline The search for her son was over. The search for her family was just beginning.
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Awards

YoungStar Awards
• 2 Nominations
Young Hollywood Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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