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Deep Down
- Jesse Laurie
- Unrepped
- Available
- Thriller
- Scouted
- 74.6
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When a survivalist father and his estranged epileptic daughter fall into a remote well in the Australian Outback, their desperate climb out becomes a fight against nature, time, and their own past.
An estranged father and daughter become trapped in a well in the Australian scrub and are forced to work together for survival.
After deciding to leave his wife and epileptic thirteen-year-old daughter over family issues, a man is deep in the Australian outback when he discovers his daughter has stowed away with him. Before long, the two become inadvertently trapped in a remote well and must fight against dangerous conditions, grave injury, and their own familial tensions in order to survive.
Film
High Concept, Drama, Thriller, Marooned, Nature, Rescue, Man vs Nature, Troubled Youth, Disability, Survival, Dysfunctional Family, Affair, Daughter, Escape, Father/Daughter, Fatherhood, Parent, Parenthood, Suspenseful
89
R
Low
M
Unspecified
39
Fit
12 Feet Deep, 127 Hours, Fall, The Descent, 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, Open Water, Adrift, Gravity, All Is Lost
Present, Two Days/Flashbacks to Years Prior
100% Australian Outback including campsites, houses, a hospital, a football oval, cars, roads, a petrol station
In Australia, JACK (39) plays football with his daughter, ALICE (12). Jack’s wife, KELLY (35), happily watches nearby until Alice has a seizure. Alice is rushed to the hospital, where she is diagnosed with epilepsy.
Sometime later, Jack (40) lives alone and embarks on a road trip. While driving, he sees CALLUM (30s) and LAUREN (30s), Callum’s pregnant wife, waving for aid on the side of the road. Jack helps them.
Afterward, Jack realizes that Alice has joined him on his trip secretly. That night, the pair set up camp. He instructs her to contact Kelly to come pick her up. Instead, Alice opens her family location-sharing app and changes her location to hidden.
The next morning, Jack and Alice start driving to a nearby town. He takes a shortcut through the scrub but accidentally hits a tree branch. The windshield breaks. Forced to stop, Jack and Alice argue. Jack, whose marriage has ended because Kelly had an affair, tells Alice that he plans on never seeing her again.
Upset, Alice finds an opening to a well. Alice leans over the opening. Her phone falls into the well. Nearby, Jack is chasing off a monitor lizard when he hears Alice scream. Jack...
Sometime later, Jack (40) lives alone and embarks on a road trip. While driving, he sees CALLUM (30s) and LAUREN (30s), Callum’s pregnant wife, waving for aid on the side of the road. Jack helps them.
Afterward, Jack realizes that Alice has joined him on his trip secretly. That night, the pair set up camp. He instructs her to contact Kelly to come pick her up. Instead, Alice opens her family location-sharing app and changes her location to hidden.
The next morning, Jack and Alice start driving to a nearby town. He takes a shortcut through the scrub but accidentally hits a tree branch. The windshield breaks. Forced to stop, Jack and Alice argue. Jack, whose marriage has ended because Kelly had an affair, tells Alice that he plans on never seeing her again.
Upset, Alice finds an opening to a well. Alice leans over the opening. Her phone falls into the well. Nearby, Jack is chasing off a monitor lizard when he hears Alice scream. Jack...