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Release Date: 2001

Cast: Jonathan Tucker, Richard Gross, Goran Višnjić, Raymond J. Barry, Heather Mathieson, Holmes Osborne, Margot Krindel, Jordon Dorrance, Tilda Swinton, Tamara Hope, Josh Lucas, Peter Donat

Categories: Movies, Suspense, Family Drama, Thriller, Melodrama, Indie, Crime Thriller, Mystery, Drama Film, Crime Fiction, Crime, Crime Drama, Lgbt

The Deep End is a 2001 film that was written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (filmed before by Max Ophüls as The Reckless Moment). The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where English cinematographer Giles Nuttgens won the Best Cinematography award. Margaret Hall (Swinton) and her family live a seemingly upper middle class life in Tahoe City,... MORE

The Deep End is a 2001 film that was written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (filmed before by Max Ophüls as The Reckless Moment). The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where English cinematographer Giles Nuttgens won the Best Cinematography award. Margaret Hall (Swinton) and her family live a seemingly upper middle class life in Tahoe City, California. Her husband is a pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Constellation. She is startled to discover that her son Beau (Tucker), a high school senior, has been having a sexual affair with 30 year-old Reno, Nevada night club owner Darby Reese (Lucas). The affair becomes apparent when a drunken Beau wrecks his car returning from Reno one night. The next day, Margaret visits Reese's nightclub, The Deep End, to demand that he stay away from her son. Reese offers to stay away for $5,000. Margaret attempts to engage her son about his sexual orientation, to no avail. The two have an argument that LESS