Search - The Deep End of the Ocean [Widescreen/Fullscreen] on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 08/10/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 49 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Drama, Family Drama, Childhood Drama See Also: The Deep End of the Ocean [Fullscreen]

Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer), a photographer, is married to Pat (Treat Williams), a restaurateur, and they would seem to have a perfect life in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1988, they have three small children that Beth takes along to her high school reunion in Chicago. While checking in at a crowded hotel lobby, her middle child, three-year-old Ben, disappears. Despite a frantic search and much media coverage, the boy is not found, and Beth soon falls apart. Nine years later, the family has only barely recovered when they move to Chicago so Pat can open a restaurant with his father. A few months later, a neighborhood boy named Sam Karras (Ryan Merriman) knocks on the door, asking to mow the lawn. Beth notices the boy's appearance exactly matches a time-elapsed photo of Ben constructed by the police; she takes pictures of the boy and contacts both her husband and police detective Candy Bliss (Whoopi Goldberg). School fingerprints of Ben and Sam match, and the boy is taken to foster care while Candy and Beth confront the father, George (John Kapelos). It seems Ben was abducted by an unbalanced woman who was Beth's high school classmate; the boy was eventually adopted by George when he married "Sam's" new mother, and she later committed suicide, leaving no one to blame. Having grown up happily with George, Sam has no memories of his real parents. Now Beth and Pat must find a way to bond with Sam, and heal older brother Vincent (Jonathan Jackson), who was supposed to be watching Ben at the time he disappeared, and has been suffering from guilt ever since. ~ Ron Wells, All Movie Guide

Michelle Pfeiffer - Beth Cappadora
Treat Williams - Pat Cappadora
Whoopi Goldberg - Candy Bliss
Jonathan Jackson - Vincent (age 16)
Ryan Merriman - Sam
John Kapelos - George Karras
Gabe Kaplan

The Michelle Pfeiffer vehicle The Deep End of the Ocean comes to DVD with two different transfers, with the widescreen 1.85:1 image preferable to the standard full-frame 1.33:1 picture. English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Surround. This film missed with audiences in its initial release, and little has been added to make people reconsider. The supplemental material includes a pedestrian "making of" featurette, talent files, and a theatrical trailer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide