Also Known As: Stillness in the Water
Company: Zanuck/Brown Productions / Universal Pictures
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Plot: It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.
Cast and Character: Roy Scheider as Brody / Robert Shaw as Quint / Richard Dreyfuss as Hooper / Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody / Murray Hamilton as Vaughn / Carl Gottlieb as Meadows / Jeffrey Kramer as Hendricks / Susan Backlinie as Chrissie / Jonathan Filley as Cassidy / Ted Grossman as Estuary Victim / Chris Rebello as Michael Brody / Jay Mello as Sean Brody / Lee Fierro as Mrs. Kintner / Jeffrey Voorhees as Alex Kintner / Craig Kingsbury as Ben Gardner
Creators: n/A
Description: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Genres: Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Location: Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
MPAA: PG
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0073195.jpg
Rating: 8.2
Release Date: 20 June 1975 (USA)
Runtime: 124 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono / Dolby Digital / DTS / Dolby Surround 7.1
Tagline: She was the first.
Title: Jaws
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/
Votes: 255,035
Writers: Peter Benchley / Carl Gottlieb
Year: 1975
Jaws got rated 8.2.
About the movie: It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.
It's a Wonderful Life got rated 8.7.
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In the Bedroom got rated 7.4.
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How to Marry a Millionaire got rated 6.8.
About the movie: Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it?
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