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Overview

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3.3/10   11,723 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Peter Benchley (novel)
Carl Gottlieb (writer)
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Release Date:
22 July 1983 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Reaching new depths of terror. more
Plot:
The sons of police chief Brody must protect civilians at a Sea World theme park after a gigantic 35-foot shark becomes trapped in the park. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
5 nominations more
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(2 articles)
The Most Notable 3-D Movies Of All Time
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Not The Worst Of The Sequels, But Close more (221 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dennis Quaid ... Michael 'Mike' Brody

Bess Armstrong ... Kathryn Morgan
Simon MacCorkindale ... Philip FitzRoyce

Louis Gossett Jr. ... Calvin Bouchard

John Putch ... Sean Brody

Lea Thompson ... Kelly Ann Bukowski
P.H. Moriarty ... Jack Tate
Dan Blasko ... Dan
Liz Morris ... Liz
Lisa Maurer ... Ethel
Harry Grant ... Shelby Overman
Andy Hansen ... Silver Bullet
P.T. Horn ... Funnel Guide
John Edson ... Bob Woodbury (as John Edson Jr.)
Kaye Stevens ... Mrs. Kellender
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jaws 3
Jaws 3 People 0 (USA) (original script title)
Jaws III
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Runtime:
99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Norway:15 (DVD) | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | UK:12 (DVD rating) (2000) (uncut) | UK:15 (video rating) (1987) (cut) | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-16 (cut) | Finland:K-18
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Dennis Quaid would later refer to this movie in an interview as "I was in Jaws what?" more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When we see the crew in the underwater lab, we can just see the shark swimming toward them by moving her tale. But in the next shot that is focused on the shark, she is not moving any part of her body at all and is seemingly gliding toward the glass. Sharks must keep moving to stay alive, and if they ever stopped, they would sink and drown. more
Quotes:
Calvin Bouchard: It's what we like to call marine segregation. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "I Love the 80's 3-D" (2005) more

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Is this available on DVD in 3-D?
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19 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
Not The Worst Of The Sequels, But Close, 25 September 1999
Author: Eric-62-2 from Morristown, NJ

I had avoided seeing this film for fifteen years because of it's bad reputation and because I love the first Jaws as one of the greatest movies ever made. Having survived the horror of "Jaws: The Revenge" once, I decided to see if I could brave this one, though.

About the only thing that surprised me was that the premise wasn't quite as dumb as "Jaws: The Revenge" is. And while there is a reference to the events of "Jaws 2" at least they don't insult our intelligence with a shark pursuing one family etc. of any "Brody curse."

What sinks this film though is that it's dull in every sense. The FX are cheap and terrible and too often it's hard to figure out what's going on here. Scenes that could have been suspenseful with a competent director just plod along in a muddled fashion. In the end, Jaws 3 comes off more as a glorified made for TV type disaster movie with none of the high quality that elevates the original Jaws above such fare.

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