| The Deep End Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 8/10) |
| PLOT:
Not long after a mother finds out that her son is gay, she finds the dead body
of her son's lover behind their house. Assuming the worst, the loving mom covers
up her son's tracks, but it isn't long before folks start snooping around and...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: B+) |
| DEEP END, THE (director/writer: David Siegel & Scott McGehee; screenwriter:
based on Elizabeth Sanxay Holding's novel "The Blank Wall"; cinematographer:
Giles
Nuttgens; editor: Lauren Zuckerman; cast: Tilda Swinton (Margaret Hall), Goran
Visnjic (Alek...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Jerry Saravia |
| I was stunned after seeing "The Deep End." Here is a film noir story with the
machinations of the thriller genre but all wrapped in ivory silk, as if any and
all cliches that could occur are withheld in the service of melancholia. This is
noir that is...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Edward Johnson-Ott (Rating: 4/5) |
| The Deep End (2001)
Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter Donat, Josh Lucas,
Raymond J. Barry, Tamara Hope, Jordon Dorrance. Cinematography by Giles
Nuttgens. Music by Peter Nashel. Screenplay by Scott McGehee and David
Siegel, based...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Eugene Novikov (Rating: C) |
| The Deep End is one of the noblest failures that I've
had the mixed pleasure of seeing this year. The
well-reviewed suspense drama has the best of
intentions but it doesn't follow through. Its slow,
somber tone works but its story is a pretentious...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Susan Granger |
| An undercurrent of suspense flows through this sophisticated, low-budget,
neo-noir thriller, set in a contemporary house at Lake Tahoe where Margaret Hall
(Tilda Swinton) dutifully cares for her three children and ailing father-in-law
(Peter Donat) as...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards |
| “THE DEEP END”
Rated R, 99 minutes;
directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel
WHEN, WHERE:
Now playing at De Vargas Center;
Call 988-2775 for showtimes more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 6/10) |
| THE DEEP END
A film review by Mark R. Leeper
CAPSULE: Tilda Swinton stars as a mother who tries to hide the
death of her son's male lover and in the process gets herself
involved in a web of...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| With three pre- to mid-teen children and an aging father-in-law to care
for--cooking and cleaning and laundry, drop-offs at Little League practice
and pick-ups from ballet practice--Margaret Hall's life is rife with
complications. And with her naval...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| You know when you get one of your car tires stuck in the snow (or the mud,
for those of you who don't live north of the Mason-Dixon Line) and the
harder you work at freeing yourself, the deeper you sink? That's the basic
premise of The Deep End, a...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: A-) |
| When 17 year old Beau Hall (Jonathan Tucker, "The Virgin Suicides")
gets in a car accident after drinking with his 30 year old companion,
club owner Darby Reese (Josh Lucas, "Session 9"), his mom, Margaret
(Tilda Swinton, "The War Zone") pays Reese a...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| THE DEEP END, stunningly written, directed and produced by Scott McGehee and
David Siegel, involves a murder cover-up and an associated blackmail scheme. In
a performance that one hopes will receive an Academy Award nomination, Tilda
Swinton plays...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Writer: Scott McGehee, David Siegel, novel "The Blank Wall" by
Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Peter
Donat, Josh...more |
| The Deep End Review |
| by Christopher Null |
| A heavy drama, The Deep End is just such a tale. When teenaged Beau
(Jonathan Tucker) gets mixed up with a seedy, older man (he's secretly
gay), their relationship gets a bit too intense and the lech ends up
dead. Imagine her surprise when mom Margaret...more |
