Well-acted but pedestrian TV-like melodrama what what consitutes a family, or sociology versus biology in the kinship debate. Sometimes in tragedies healing can only take place when love means letting go. Michelle Pfeiffer turns in an impassioned performance of often gut-wrenching intensity in a film that deserves far less.
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A respectable family drama, but is all the more disappointing since it is obvious that it could have been so much more. If Pfeiffer doesn't fill your tear ducts at some point in the film, see your doctor and have them checked. This is truly a sad film, but it has its problems. Michelle Pfeiffer played an incredible performance however. Moving story about a family who's son disappears but thye find him years later.
Brilliant performance by Michelle. Not bad, but nothing more than average. More Top Movies Trailers. DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Black Panther Dominates Honorees. Trending on RT Avengers: The Deep End of the Ocean Post Share on Facebook. Movie Info In the middle of a crowded hotel lobby Beth Cappadora looks away for a moment-and in that moment lives every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son Ben disappears.
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Michelle Pfeiffer as Beth Cappadora. Treat Williams as Pat Cappadora. Whoopi Goldberg as Candy Bliss. Jonathan Jackson as Vincent age Ryan Merriman as Sam.
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John Kapelos as George Karras. Michael McElroy as Ben. Cory Buck as Vincent age 7. Alexa PenaVega as Kerry age 9. Michael McGrady as Jimmy. Brenda Strong as Ellen.
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Wisconsin photographer and housewife Beth Cappadora leaves her youngest son, Ben, alone with his older brother for a brief moment in a crowded Chicago hotel lobby, while attending her high school reunion. The older son lets go of Ben's hand and Ben vanishes without a trace. Beth goes into an extended mental breakdown and it is left to her husband and owner of a restaurant, Pat, to force his wife to robotically care for their remaining two children, 7-year-old Vincent and infant daughter Kerry. Nine years later a young boy named Sam asks Beth if she needs the lawn mowed.
Beth suspects that this boy who lives with his "father" two blocks away is in fact her lost son, and while Sam mows the lawn, she takes photographs of him to show to her husband and teenage son, who then says that he suspected the boy's true identity all along. The parents contact Detective Candy Bliss who pops in to offer wise, albeit often cryptic and conflicting, advice to Beth. It is learned that at the reunion in Chicago, the celebrity alumna Cecil Lockhart kidnapped Ben, renamed him Sam, and raised him as her own child until she was committed to a mental hospital, leaving Sam to be raised in a house only two blocks from the Cappadoras, by his adoptive father, the sensitive and intellectual George Karras.
Ben was raised by a Greek-American father for nine years, while his biological parents are Italian-American. Ben is a polite, intelligent American boy who takes great pride in participating in Greek cultural rituals, much to the frustration of Pat who wants to pretend that Ben was never really abducted.
Ben is faced with the cultural identity that he grew up with, and the cultural identity he would have known had he not been kidnapped. Ben's adoptive father agrees to surrender Ben to his birth family, while still living two blocks away.
Torn between two worlds and having lost both of the parents that he knew, Ben expresses suicidal feelings to Beth. Ben's only memory of his biological family is one of brother Vincent and thus over a one-on-one basketball game he absolves his brother of any responsibility for his abduction, and agrees to return to live with the Cappadoras. At the end of the novel, many conflicts remain unresolved. In Rolling Stone , Peter Travers held a similar view: Treat Williams excels as the husband, as does Whoopi Goldberg , a detective who helps the parents in their search.
In Entertainment Weekly , Michael Sauter also found the lead performances superior to the film as a whole: Far less effective, however, is the rest of the story, set nine years later, when the boy resurfaces But if the film was less than satisfying as a big-screen event, it's still worth renting for Pfeiffer, who valiantly portrays the devastating complexities of grief and guilt.
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Ebert wrote that " Ulu Grosbard 's The Deep End of the Ocean is a painfully stolid movie that lumbers past emotional issues like a wrestler in a cafeteria line, putting a little of everything on his plate. It provides big roles for Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams , but doesn't provide them with the screenplay support they need; the result is that awkwardness when characters express emotions that the audience doesn't share. After all, the movie — based on Jacquelyn Mitchard 's novel — is about losing a child.
This is, essentially, emotional blackmail for anyone with a family. Two hundred monkeys fighting over one word processor could make you cry over material like that.
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Apart from the previously mentioned occasions, and nice performances from Jonathan Jackson and Ryan Merriman , the movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style. Unfortunately the album only includes cues of certain scenes while the rest of the score remains unreleased or incomplete, such as Sam's conversation with Beth in the graveyard or Beth's conversation with Vincent in the penitentiary among others. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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