Jaws

Movie Summary

Released: 1975
In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular. With beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the weathered fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down for 3000 bucks). The sequences on Shaw's boat 'ORCA'--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--underscore what entertaining moviemaking is all about.

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bauer23Posted: 09/28/2007

This is one of the best movies of all time...period.One of the great things is that you don,t see the shark untill the last third of the film so a tension builds up.And the performances are all great.

NightbanePosted: 10/09/2007

My brother and I love to watch this movie but I want to buy Jaws Unleashed the video game for PS2

Zebra 3Posted: 11/14/2007

My fav. horror movie.

kerfootbPosted: 11/22/2007

If you consider it a horror movie, then this is the first I've seen. For some reason, it didn't scare me so much, probably because I was fascinated with and really liked sharks. Great movie though, and sometimes when I was younger it really did make me not want to go in the water...

PolishedCoffinPosted: 09/01/2008

"quit playin' with yourself Hooper and throw out that chum line!"

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