The Abyss (1989)

One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface, where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in a remote part of the ocean floor, a team of divers on a prototype underwater oil rig are pressed into service by the U.S. Navy in a rescue attempt. When a hurricane cuts off contact between the surface and the underwater depths, the crew begin to see evidence of a strange, possibly alien intelligence at work. While chief Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) bickers with his ex-wife and boss (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), the Navy commander begins to grow increasingly paranoid about the mysterious alien life and threatens to use a recovered nuclear weapon to destroy everything. James Cameron's undersea epic is a tale of sacrifice and hope in an amazing alien landscape that covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Featuring landmark visual effects but plagued by production difficulties, the cast and

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Directed by

James Cameron Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic, Aliens

Written by

James Cameron Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Strange Days, Dark Angel

Cast

Ed Harris The Truman Show, The Rock, A Beautiful Mind Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio The Perfect Storm, Scarface, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Michael Biehn Aliens, The Terminator, The Rock Chris Elliott There's Something About Mary, Groundhog Day, Scary Movie 2 Michael Beach Internal Affairs, Lean on Me, One False Move Leo Burmester The Devil's Advocate, A Perfect World, The Last Temptation of Christ Todd Graff Strange Days, An Innocent Man, Five Corners [more]

Music By

Alan Silvestri Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away

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