The Deep Blue Sea (2011 film)

The Deep Blue Sea
UK theatrical release poster
Directed byTerence Davies
Screenplay byTerence Davies
Based onThe Deep Blue Sea
by Terence Rattigan
Produced bySean O'Connor
Kate Ogborn
StarringRachel Weisz
Tom Hiddleston
Simon Russell Beale
Harry Hadden-Paton
CinematographyFlorian Hoffmeister
Edited byDavid Charap
Music bySamuel Barber
Production
companies
Distributed byArtificial Eye[1]
Release dates
  • 11 September 2011 (2011-09-11) (TIFF)
  • 25 November 2011 (2011-11-25)
Running time
98 minutes[2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8 million[3]
Box office$3.1 million[1]

The Deep Blue Sea is a 2011 British romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies and starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, and Simon Russell Beale. It is an adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play The Deep Blue Sea about the wife of a judge who engages in an affair with a former RAF pilot. This film version was funded by the UK Film Council and Film4, produced by Sean O'Connor and Kate Ogborn.

Filming began in late 2010 and it was released in the United Kingdom in 2011, the year of Rattigan's centenary. It was released in the United States in 2012 by distributor Music Box Films.[4][5]

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  2. ^ "THE DEEP BLUE SEA (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  3. ^ "The Deep Blue Sea - PowerGrid". powergrid.thewrap.com. 12 December 2014.
  4. ^ Child, Ben (17 November 2010). "Terence Davies resurfaces to begin filming The Deep Blue Sea". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ "THE DEEP BLUE SEA: IN CINEMAS NOW". Film4. Retrieved 27 November 2011.