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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Dave This is a drama film that's set in London and stars John Moulder-Brown as 15-year-old Mike, who works at a swimming pool. He's strongly attracted to his hot colleague Susan (played by Jane Asher). She's several years older than him - and is promiscuous and very manipulative. It's very well-written and acted. I don't know why it's not well-known.

Alex da Silva Teenager John Moulder Brown (Mike) gets an attendant's job at a swimming pool and public baths. His co-worker is Jane Asher (Susan) who shows him the ropes which includes performing extra duties as sexual favours for customers. Brown isn't interested in this side of the job but has no choice when pornographic actress Diana Dors shows up! They have a memorable and funny scene together at the baths. Dors also pops up in a porno film at the cinema when Brown sneaks in after following Asher and her fiancé Christopher Sandford (Chris) who go to watch it. What Brown does next is pretty daring! Anyway, this teenager becomes obsessed with his co-worker and we all know that obsession never ends well… It's a film set in a peculiar world – that of the sleazy public bathrooms – that portrays a proportion of the sleaziness that must have actually taken place there. So, it's good for that and we do get some peculiar characters. Karl Michael Vogler's swimming teacher will creep you out as he takes his swimming class of young girls. Whilst I could relate to a teenage boy lusting after a woman older than himself, I couldn't relate to Brown's actions. The cinema scene – no way, buddie – he wouldn't have the confidence. It's completely unrealistic and seems more like the director's fantasy. However, it is at this point that you realize Jane Asher is a complete bitch. So, we have two flawed main characters which is OK but also annoying at times. And the ending – well, it's a downbeat film.

MovieHeart Incredible gem that I'd never heard about before today. You'll RUIN it for yourself if you read ANYTHING about it ahead of time. WOW, is all I want to say for now--and that this is a MUST SEE that is well worth it- -shut down the phone, tablet, or laptop and see it NOW! Oh, dear, it's tell me that I need to write more, so I will mention that this is my new favorite 1970s indie, my new favorite coming of age film, and that the two leads don't look dated at all, which adds to the enjoyment. I was shocked at how stylish Jane Asher looked with her do, and the boy was handsome, adorable, and an incredible actor--BOTH were great as actors and together.

tomgillespie2002 A British oddity (released through BFI's flipside series), written and directed by Polish émigré, Jerzy Skolimowski (whose previous work included the screenplay for Roman Polanski's masterful Knife in the Water (1962)), Deep End is a story of naive obsession. 15 year old Mike (John Moulder-Brown), takes a job in a typical Victorian, city bathhouse in London. The brooding, awkward teenager falls for Susan (Jane Asher), a beautiful redheaded attendant, with a colourful secret life, and a fiancé. His obsession with her increases and he begins following her outside of work. In this act he falls upon a life-sized cardboard cut- out of Susan outside a strip club in the red-light district of Soho.Whilst the film is primarily a marginally twisted drama, there are some intentionally funny scenes that elevate the narrative. A stand out moment in the bathhouse has Mike trapped in a room with Diana Dors' lady client, who coaxes him and pulls the unnerved child to her breasts, asking if he likes football, and then chanting "Georgie Best". Mike follows Susan and her fiancé, Chris (Christopher Sandford), into a cinema and sits behind them. In a moment of tactless teenage bravura, Mike grabs Susan's breast, and her reaction is to complain and press charges as the police arrive. Mike's futile stalking of Susan inevitably leads him to her secret world, which he does not favour, confronting her with the aforementioned two-dimensional replica of the topless Susan, demanding that she justify these occupations.There is a coming-of-age narrative imbued in this film, with elements that many will recognise such as the inherent awkwardness that is teenage existence. And as our protagonist is male, he is therefore has a deeply bungling nature, his hormones seething. The scale with which Mike's obsession with Susan becomes is bordering on the nature of John Fowles's Frederick Clegg character in his novel The Collector. He steals that Susan cardboard replica, throwing it into the swimming pool he stands over her floating duplicate on a diving board. A dive and sensual swim with it is reflected in the closing, relatively haunting closing images. An interesting, sometimes funny, but not altogether exciting piece of cinema.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com