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Released
1999 · FILM

The Deep End of the Ocean

A grieving mother’s desperate search for her vanished three‑year‑old son spirals into a heart‑wrenching race against time when a chance clue resurfaces nine years later, forcing her to confront the painful truth before it slips away forever.

“The search for her son was over. The search for her family was just beginning.”

Directed by
Ulu Grosbard
Written by
Jacquelyn Mitchard, Stephen Schiff
Runtime
106 min
Drama

Synopsis

A three-year-old boy goes missing during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, he is found by chance in the town where his family has recently moved.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John BloomShot by Stephen GoldblattScored by Elmer BernsteinDesigned by Dan Davis

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$28.1M

Budget$38.0M
Worldwide gross$28.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.9M — 49% of worldwide · International: $14.2M (51%)

Opening weekend: $5.6M — 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.4M — 53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,907 theaters

Also known as

  • Tief wie der Ozeande
  • Aussi profond que l'océanfr
  • In fondo al cuoreit

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