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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 31

Fresh: 13

Rotten:18

Average Rating: 5.8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Pfeiffer delivers an impassioned performance as a mother whose son has been kidnapped. Ten years later, she finds out that he is still alive and living in the same town. Based on the novel by... [More]

Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson

Director: Ulu Grosbard

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Aug 10, 1999

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08/07/08

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Grosbard...forgets the need for character motivation, point of view, or anything else that might make this compelling subject an interesting film.

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01/12/07

Maria Garcia

Film Journal International

Well-acted but pedestrian TV-like melodrama what what consitutes a family, or sociology versus biology in the kinship debate.

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06/20/06

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01/26/06

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07/21/05

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05/22/03

Eugene Novikov

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05/14/03

Jeanne Aufmuth

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02/08/03

John R. McEwen

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12/08/02

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11/15/02

Jeffrey Westhoff

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08/09/02

Robert Denerstein

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07/26/02

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

a flawed but often effective family drama that turns on the deepest fear of every parent or guardian: that one dumb move, a single moment of neglect that can turn the rest of your life inside out.

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06/23/02

James Sanford

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06/05/02

Tim Cogshell

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03/22/02

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03/05/02

Charlotte O'Sullivan

Sight and Sound

Sometimes in tragedies healing can only take place when love means letting go.

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02/28/02

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05/11/01

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