A very conventional film. If it was done in Europe, it would hold good chances for a remarkable movie - parents confronted with the homosexuality of their teenager male kids, crime zone penetrating bourgeois privacy, the mafiosi falling in love with the blackmail victim. But the film WAS done in the US, and it would take a Hitchcock to make a great movie out of the story of the mother trying to cover for the alleged crime of her son. The master (who was British after all!) is no longer available, so we are left with an American movie filmed slowly a la European. This is exactly what US directors seem to do worse, and it takes half of the screen time for the subject to develop. The third quarter is the best, but then the end comes - and this is the worse and most conventional part of the film. What we are left is the very good acting, a story that is memorable but needs to wait for a remake in a few years to make more of it.
Review of The Deep End
