Adapted with care by Stephen Schiff, who did an excellent job on the script for the recent Lolita, this film avoids what could have been an ugly movie-of-the-week fate. The Deep End of the Ocean deals with an instance of this second kind. Others involve parties which have experienced loss and have no need for such artifice - they both want what’s best for the child. Some of these cases are selfish, which might be well served by King Solomon’s fabled solution of suggesting the child to be cut in half, thus forcing the legitimate parent to step forward and give up their claim to save the child’s life. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson and Ryan MerrimanĮvery day the papers publish stories about child-custody battles, about babies switched at birth or about birth parents changing their mind about giving up a child for adoption. Written by Stephen Schiff, based on the novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard MOVIE REVIEW The Deep End of the Ocean Sea-sick plot eventually reaches solid ground By Roy Rodenstein
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