The Deep End was a film written and directed by the team of David Siegel and Scott McGehee, released in 2001. 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 Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. The film premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Best Cinematography award.
Plot: With her husband perpetually away at work, a mother raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
Cast
* Tilda Swinton – Margaret Hall
* Goran Visnjic – Alek ‘Al’ Spera
* Jonathan Tucker – Beau Hall
* Peter Donat – Jack Hall
* Josh Lucas – Darby Reese
* Raymond J. Barry – Carlie Nagel (as Raymond Barry)
* Tamara Hope – Paige Hall
