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MOVIE · 1999

The Deep End of the Ocean

DramaMystery106 min

During a Chicago high school reunion, a mother’s youngest son disappears, leaving the Cappadora family to live with the loss for nearly a decade. Michelle Pfeiffer is the parent at the center of it, with Treat Williams as her husband, trying to keep the household intact as the years pass and the family relocates. Then a chance encounter in their new town brings the missing boy back into view, forcing everyone around him to face how much time has changed. Whoopi Goldberg is Detective Candy Bliss, one of the adults drawn back into the family’s unresolved crisis.

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