Review of The Deep End

The film really should have earned Tilda Swinton, an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, as Margaret Hall, mother of three whose military husband is away at sea. Her gay musician adolescent son gets mixed up with this guy, Darby. He ends up dead and his body is dumped in the deep end of Lake Tahoe. I have to say the scenery is authentic and beautiful. Anyway, Darby's accidental death brings a series of unfortunate events plaguing Margaret's conscious. She is blackmailed by Gorjan's character who is working for a crooked, corrupt extortionist. Gorjan's role turns out to be quite decent after he saves Margaret's father-in-law's life while she is on her way to see him at the post office. He is blackmailing her for fifty thousand. So nice of a guy, he doesn't take his share for the sex tape between Darby and Margaret's son. The film is not so bad. I don't care for the gay son who I think doesn't take his responsibility for his crimes or actions that put his mother in such turmoil. It should be him and not her.