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Jaws
1975
From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue and destroy it: the .. Read more
| Starring | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Jaws
From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue and destroy it: the new chief of police from New York (Roy Scheider), a young university-educated oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss), and a crusty old-time fisherman (Robert Shaw). The film shoot was notoriously difficult for the young Spielberg, who had directed only one feature film before JAWS. The mechanical shark seldom operated correctly, and Spielberg was frequently forced to create the idea of terror without actually showing the shark. However, after the film premiered it went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time--surpassing THE GODFATHER and becoming the first film to gross more than one million dollars. Composer John Williams created the score to JAWS, which has since become a well-known theme of impending doom. Ron and Valerie Taylor were responsible for filming live sharks in Australia; their sequences were later mixed with footage of the mechanical shark.
| Starring | Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Jonathan Filley, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Jay Mello, Peter Benchley |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 59 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Horror Films, 100 Top Thrillers |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 01 Dec 2003 Production year: 1975 |
| Format | DVD |
Jaws (1975)
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Peter Benchley's pulp bestseller is here turned into the scariest sea saga ever filmed, with Steven Spielberg creating maximum suspense in the first dark moments and then maintaining the momentum with brilliant sleight-of-hand direction. The tale of a great white shark terrorising a New England resort community and the modern-day Captain Ahab (Robert Shaw) employed to kill it is now a classic of the suspense thriller genre. John Williams's Oscar-winning music and the excellent performances of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss add to the ingeniously mounted tension that cleverly plays on all our deepest primeval fears.
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In the exploitation-hungry seventies this film took more money than any other. In itself, despite genuinely suspenseful and frightening sequences, it is a slackly narrated and sometimes flatly handled thriller with an over-abundance of dialogue and, when
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22 out of 25 people found this review helpful
We need a bigger boat
Principally, 'Jaws' is about a huge shark terrorizing a commonly serene coastal town up in the north-eastern United States. After the attacks grow to be more horrifying, repetitive, and was also involving children; a police chief, a somewhat eccentric sailor and a marine biologist set sail to track down the shark. The main difficulty is that they have no idea what they are getting themselves into.
Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider performed outstandingly, but it is Robert Shaw and his representation of the crazy sailor Quint that steals the show. The three characters fail to get along with each other while in the boat, but need each other to survive, since it soon becomes clear that they’ve bitten off a little more than tey can chew, and their lives are at stake
Bottom line, this film is incredible. 'Jaws' is THE film to watch before heading out to the beach.
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- JediSi
- Posted 03 Sep 2007 22:16
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Still a Great Movie
Okay, the shark looks a little bit mechanical in some scenes, but this was in the day before CGI ruled the world and made everything look like a slick video game.
Jaws has fantastic editing, well built tension, great characters, genuine 'jump off the seat' moments and some fine acting. This will always be in the top ten movies of all time. If you've never seen it, give it a try.
If you have seen it, watch it again, you'll still love the 'Show Me The Way To Go Home' scene.
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