Deep End
“If you can't have the real thing— you do all kinds of unreal things.”
Jerzy SkolimowskiCast
Jane Asher 
John Moulder-Brown 
Karl Michael Vogler
Credits
Written by: Jerzy Skolimowski
Plot
Mike, a fifteen-year-old school-leaver, takes a job at a run-down London bathhouse, where he is surrounded by an assortment of customers. He becomes obsessed with his co-worker Susan, an older girl, and his fixation leads him to follow her, with tragic effect. Jerzy Skolimowski's 1970 film, with John Moulder-Brown and Jane Asher, mixes comedy with obsessive desire, and has striking colours that make it a cult favourite.
Sinekatalog’s take
Jerzy Skolimowski's London drama follows a teenager obsessed with a colleague at a seedy bathhouse. Funny, garish and then devastating, it captures adolescent longing with strange, sharp colour.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (8,899 votes)
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