'Deep Water' is see-worthy fare.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: August 31, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Koehler Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

"Deep Water," and the impressions it leaves, can't be shaken for hours, even days, after it's viewed.

Louise Osmond's and Jerry Rothwell's intensely felt documentary account of the bizarre adventure of sailboat racer Donald Crowhurst is no less than the film equivalent of a great Joseph Conrad story - a descent into the extremes of human will, self-delusion, and madness in confrontation with t...

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