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Deep End
If you can't have the real thing— you do all kinds of unreal things.
London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
- Original title
- Deep End
- Language
- EN
- Country
- DE,GB
- Budget
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CinemaSerf
May 25, 2024 · via TMDB
Takes me back to the days when folks had to go to a bathhouse - we'd get half an hour and I'd share with my sister. Carbolic soap! Anyway, don't remember having attendants quite as easy on the eye as "Susan" (Jane Asher) and "Mike" (John Moulder-Brown). Most of the film is taken from the perspective of the latter, constantly horny, young lad who has the serious hots for his colleague. He's young and innocent and so gets his fair share of attention (and tips) from the clientele too - especially Diana Dors! "Susan" lives her life to the full, and that doesn't suit the increasingly possessive young "Mike". He starts to follow her and soon realises that she has a pretty drippy boyfriend "Mike" (Christopher Sandford) and is having a fling with his teacher (Karl Michael Vogler). Somehow he manages to get hold of a full-sized cardboard cut out of his dream girl as the latter half hour of the film descends a little too much into hormone-driven farce for me. It was rated X for the nudity, of which there is a little towards the end, but for the most part the sexual content is confined to the young man's head and JMB is quite good at imbuing his character with a degree of sexual frustration that I suspect we can all relate to. Asher, likewise, is quite effective as his manipulatrix and for an hour or so their teasing cat and mouse antics (she being the cat) are quite fun. Thereafter, though, I sort of lost interest and found it dragging. It's certainly worth a watch, but it's lost most of its oomph I'm afraid.
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Jane Asher
Susan
John Moulder-Brown
Mike
Karl Michael Vogler
Gym Teacher
Christopher Sandford
Chris
Diana Dors
Bathhouse Female Client #1
Louise Martini
Beata
Erica Beer
Bathhouse Cashier
Anita Lochner
Kathy
Cheryl Hall
Red Hat Girl
Christine Paul-Podlasky
White Coat Girl
Dieter Eppler
Bathhouse Boiler Room Manager
Karl Ludwig Lindt
Bathhouse Manager
Eduard Linkers
Cinema Manager
Burt Kwouk
Street Food Cart Manager
Uli Steigberg
Mike's Father (uncredited)
Peter Martin Urtel
Old Police Officer (uncredited)
Jerzy Skolimowski
Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited)
Flavia Keyt
Sex Film Actress (uncredited)
Jerzy Skolimowski
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Cat Stevens
Original Music Composer
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Screenplay
Jerzy Skolimowski
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