The Drowning

The Drowning

If evil exists, can it be transformed?

Directed by Bette Gordon

Produced by The Film Community

201695 min4.5 / 10

A psychologically complex drama that interrogates redemption, culpability, and the possibility of transformation through the fraught relationship between a psychiatrist and his troubled patient.

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.

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Like The Drowning

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Same Mood as The Drowning

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like The Drowning, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like The Drowning, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.