Picturesque Lake Tahoe is the setting of this story but there's the decadent Reno, NV lurking. This family is in deep water from the very beginning including a lakeside home, aquarium, leaky faucet, water bottles, health club pool and the watery grave for the dead drunk. We're drowning in this metaphor
There's evil in the deep end, which is the name of the bar that Margaret's (Tilda Swinton) first nemesis owns. She has old fashioned notions that her 17 year old son Beau (Jonathan Tucker) shouldn't be hanging with a 31 year old dude, particularly since they just had a major fender bender where alcohol was involved. Was I the only one curious about Beau's continued driving following an obvious DUI?
Once the body surfaces so do predatory opportunists with an incriminating video placing son and bar owner too close for comfort. The father, a military officer who's too much the gentleman to appreciate his son's uncloseted lifestyle, must be kept out of his loop. The price tag for domestic tranquility is beyond Margaret's reach and that dilemma only draws her in deeper.
Here we start to see the scrupulous extortionist Alek (Goran Visnjic). The good cop/bad cop ploy between both blackmailers, Alek and Carlie Nagle (Raymond J. Barry) and Margaret evolves into a relationship leaving the audience, and Margaret, agape. Tilda Swinton shows her remarkable range of perplexed expressions as well as a darn good American accent. She plays her part with the determination to protect her son regardless of the personal cost. Left to her own resources, the alpha female will defend her progeny through determination, wile and good fortune.
I had a boss who said he would rather be lucky than talented. He was lucky. Margaret is both. And Tilda Swinton is remarkably talented; for that we are lucky.
CyCy
There's evil in the deep end, which is the name of the bar that Margaret's (Tilda Swinton) first nemesis owns. She has old fashioned notions that her 17 year old son Beau (Jonathan Tucker) shouldn't be hanging with a 31 year old dude, particularly since they just had a major fender bender where alcohol was involved. Was I the only one curious about Beau's continued driving following an obvious DUI?
Once the body surfaces so do predatory opportunists with an incriminating video placing son and bar owner too close for comfort. The father, a military officer who's too much the gentleman to appreciate his son's uncloseted lifestyle, must be kept out of his loop. The price tag for domestic tranquility is beyond Margaret's reach and that dilemma only draws her in deeper.
Here we start to see the scrupulous extortionist Alek (Goran Visnjic). The good cop/bad cop ploy between both blackmailers, Alek and Carlie Nagle (Raymond J. Barry) and Margaret evolves into a relationship leaving the audience, and Margaret, agape. Tilda Swinton shows her remarkable range of perplexed expressions as well as a darn good American accent. She plays her part with the determination to protect her son regardless of the personal cost. Left to her own resources, the alpha female will defend her progeny through determination, wile and good fortune.
I had a boss who said he would rather be lucky than talented. He was lucky. Margaret is both. And Tilda Swinton is remarkably talented; for that we are lucky.
CyCy