The Deep End
“How far would you go to protect your family?”
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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?
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A suffocating tension builds as a mother's desperate attempt to protect her son unravels. The film feels like a slow, agonizing descent into moral compromise, steeped in quiet dread and unspoken anxieties.
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