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Jaws 2 (1978)

PG 116 min  -  Thriller  -   16 June 1978 (USA)
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Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Director:

Jeannot Szwarc

Writers:

Peter Benchley (characters created by), Carl Gottlieb, and 1 more credit »
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Roy Scheider ...
Lorraine Gary ...
Murray Hamilton ...
Joseph Mascolo ...
Jeffrey Kramer Jeffrey Kramer ...
Collin Wilcox Paxton Collin Wilcox Paxton ...
Dr. Lureen Elkins (as Collin Wilcox)
Ann Dusenberry Ann Dusenberry ...
Mark Gruner ...
Barry Coe Barry Coe ...
Susan French Susan French ...
Gary Springer Gary Springer ...
Donna Wilkes Donna Wilkes ...
Gary Dubin Gary Dubin ...
John Dukakis John Dukakis ...
G. Thomas Dunlop G. Thomas Dunlop ...
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Storyline

The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial troubles that suffered after becoming known as the site of shark attacks four years earlier. Mayor Larry Vaughn is welcoming developer Len Peterson and his new resort to Amity. Two scuba divers are exploring the area where the Orca sank after police chief Martin Brody killed a huge shark four years ago. A shark shows up and devoured the two divers, but not before one of the divers takes a close-up picture of the shark's eye, and sometime later, while a mother is driving a boat that's pulling her water-skiing teenage daughter, the shark devours the daughter and causes the mother to accidentally blow up the boat, then a killer whale is found on the shore with a huge bites on it. After Brody sees this, he knows there's another huge great white shark in Amity's waters, but Vaughn and Peterson explain these attacks away as non-shark accidents... Written by Todd Baldridge  

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

Shark | Island | Beach | Mayor | Police Chief  | See more »

Taglines:

After the sensational return to the screen of JAWS... what could be more terrifying than JAWS 2 See more »

Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Tiburón 2 See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$9,866,023 (USA) (18 June 1978) (640 Screens)

Gross:

$208,900,000 (Worldwide) (2004)
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Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

On the Brodys' front porch is a flower planter painted bright yellow. It is one of the barrels from the first Jaws. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When the shark leaps on top of the boat wreckage to grab Sean, the shark's entire lower jaw bends in half when he opens his mouth. See more »

Quotes

Martin Brody: You don't have to worry about being sued or being ruined if this turns out to be what I think it is, because there won't be anybody here!
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Connections

Referenced in The Meaning of Life (1983) See more »