7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Deep End (2001)
The Deep End (2001)
Overview
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall 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?
Starring Cast
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Viewer Rating
7.2
Overview
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall 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?
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film centers on a mother's desperate actions to protect her son from the legal consequences of an accidental death, exploring the psychological and ethical toll of her choices. The narrative is a personal drama, devoid of explicit political messaging or advocacy for specific ideologies, thus aligning with a neutral rating.
The movie features a predominantly white main cast without intentional race or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative focuses on a family drama, and it does not critically portray traditional identities or explicitly incorporate DEI themes.
Secondary
The Deep End features a gay relationship as the catalyst for its thriller plot, with the accidental death of one partner leading to a cover-up. The film presents the gay identity of characters factually, without judgment or exploration of related themes. The narrative focuses on the mother's desperate actions, treating the LGBTQ+ element as a neutral plot device rather than a subject of affirmation or denigration.
The film "The Deep End" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a mother's efforts to cover up a death involving her son and his male lover, without any elements related to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "The Deep End" is an adaptation of the novel "The Blank Wall." A review of the main characters in both the source material and the film reveals no instances where a character's established gender was changed for the screen adaptation.
The film "The Deep End" is an adaptation of the novel "The Blank Wall." A review of the main characters and their portrayals in the film compared to the source material reveals no instances where a character's established race was changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.2
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