The script is as oblivious as the biological parents, almost completely ignoring the trauma of the father who raised the boy in good faith from 3 to 12.

Full Review | May 23, 2023

The subject is poignant and suspenseful, but the treatment is drab and uninvolving despite competent acting and a few well-crafted scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Grosbard...forgets the need for character motivation, point of view, or anything else that might make this compelling subject an interesting film.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2007

Well-acted but pedestrian TV-like melodrama what what consitutes a family, or sociology versus biology in the kinship debate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 20, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 15, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2002

a flawed but often effective family drama that turns on the deepest fear of every parent or guardian: that one dumb move, a single moment of neglect that can turn the rest of your life inside out.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Sometimes in tragedies healing can only take place when love means letting go.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2002

Kudos to Michelle Pfeiffer and Treat Williams.

Full Review | Original Score: short | Apr 20, 2001

Michelle Pfeiffer turns in an impassioned performance of often gut-wrenching intensity in a film that deserves far less.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The Deep End of the Ocean is unconvincing from start to finish.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000