PG-13 | 1h 46min | Drama, Family | 1999
“The Deep End of the Ocean” (1999) feels hurried, but its message to us, as families, is to slow down.
Ulu Grosbard directs this film based on Stephen Schiff’s screenplay as adapted from Jacquelyn Mitchard’s best-selling novel.
A visibly happy, fulfilled couple, Beth (Michelle Pfeiffer) and her husband Pat (Treat Williams), are forced to contend with the sudden, unexplained disappearance of their 3-year-old son, Ben, at Beth’s school reunion party.
They and their other kids, baby-daughter Kerry and pre-teen son Vincent, learn to cope with this devastating loss until, after nine bruising years, almost too miraculously, Ben re-enters their life….