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The Scouting Book For Boys (2010).


This underseen British gem from last year features many striking similarities to Deep End, so many that there's no way it couldn't have been an influence. That film, too, is about an immature boy falling in love with a much more experienced older girl who's taken - and the films share similar shockingly downbeat endings, and both raise similar ideas about the tragicness of young love, and the dark immaturity of jealousy. Both are masterpieces, and I highly suggest you check The Scouting Book For Boys out if you loved Deep End.

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Who's in it? Who's the director? I could look it up, i guess...

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I record various random films off of TV to watch at a later date... normally get four to a disc.

This was the last film on my latest disc and the film just in front of it was........"Scouting". Quite a coincidence, even if Film Four were showing a season at the time!!!!!

And yes having watched them back to back, the tone is very similar, even if the quality is different.

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