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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jul 11, 2000
• R2: 24 Jul 2000
Budget $12,000,000
Official Website:
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MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
2 hours, 4 minutes
Country USA
Studio Universal
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Other Titles
• Jaws
• Stillness in the Water (1975)
• Der Weiße Hai (1975)
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Genre: Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Sea, Animals, Suspense, Serial Killer, Cult Classic, Teenage, Marriage, Monsters
Tagline: The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller.
Plot: 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 a hundred 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
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This excellent horror flick was the first movie in history to gross over one hundred million dollars. ... Plenty of tense moments for fans. The breakthrough hit for director Spielberg who's gone on to make most of the top-grossing films of all-time.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
What makes this movie great is how it is almost entirely two different films in one: the first half is pure horror flick, as we follow Roy Schneider and his struggles to capture the monster terrorizing his beach. After meeting the other main characters (which include a shark specialist and a shark hunter) the viewer is then thrust in a classic adventure story as the 3 men venture out into the sea with one goal in mind: to hunt and kill the great white.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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