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The Deep End of the Ocean (12-Mar-1999)
Director: Ulu Grosbard Writer: Stephen Schiff Based on a book by: Jacquelyn Mitchard Keywords: Drama, Class Reunion
REVIEWS Review by Anonymous (posted on 24-Sep-2007) An effective account (real?) of a family whose middle child, a three year old boy, turns up missing one day. The family later moves to a Chicago suburb and one day the mother of the child meets a boy from the neighborhood who asks to mow their yard and begins to wonder if this boy might in fact be their lost son 12 years later. The film excellently focuses on the emotional ups and downs which each member of the family experiences from the lost child (son to the parents, sibling to an older brother and a younger sister who was only an infant at the time the boy disappeared), as well as the emotional upheaval for both the father of the missing boy during his "lost" years, particularly upon learning that the boy must return to his family of origin, and for the boy who mostly only remembers the foster father (mother who stole him is deceased by the time the family of origin "find" him), and the different reactions of the birth father and birth mother to the loss and then to the problems of trying to re-integrate him into his birth family.
The film ends with a surprise outcome that seems quite realistic.
The film is well worth seeing, though it may be too "heavy" for any parents or children of families in which there has been the loss, by death, accident, or deliberate theft, of a child.
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