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Shark Attack

  • TV Movie
  • 1999
  • R
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
3.3/10
3.2K
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Shark Attack (1999)
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In a once serene African fishing village, a marine biologist goes in search of some answers when his friend becomes a victim in one of a series of brutal shark attacks.In a once serene African fishing village, a marine biologist goes in search of some answers when his friend becomes a victim in one of a series of brutal shark attacks.In a once serene African fishing village, a marine biologist goes in search of some answers when his friend becomes a victim in one of a series of brutal shark attacks.

  • Director
    • Bob Misiorowski
  • Writers
    • Scott Devine
    • William Hooke
  • Stars
    • Cordell McQueen
    • Casper Van Dien
    • Chris Olley
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.3/10
    3.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Bob Misiorowski
    • Writers
      • Scott Devine
      • William Hooke
    • Stars
      • Cordell McQueen
      • Casper Van Dien
      • Chris Olley
    • 55User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Casper Van Dien and Jenny McShane in Shark Attack (1999)
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    "SHARK ATTACK" Casper Van Dien/ Jenny McShane
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    Cordell McQueen
    • Marc Desantis
    Casper Van Dien
    Casper Van Dien
    • Steven McKray
    Chris Olley
    • Police Chief
    Jacob Makgoba
    • Machete Policeman
    Paul Ditchfield
    • Professor Bookman
    Shelley Meskin
    • First Pretty Co-Ed
    Candice Berman
    • Second Pretty Co-Ed
    Bentley Mitchum
    Bentley Mitchum
    • Dr. Miles Craven
    Simo Magwase
    • Tanka
    Willie
    • Boat Captain
    Ernie Hudson
    Ernie Hudson
    • Lawrence Rhodes
    Anton Dekker
    • Jan
    Tony Caprari
    Tony Caprari
    • Mani
    • (as Toni Caprari)
    Dave Ridley
    • Mr. Hacker
    Jenny McShane
    Jenny McShane
    • Corine Desantis
    • (as Jennifer McShane)
    Bradley Meyer
    • Boy in Boat
    Eloise Cupido
    • Hotel Desk Clerk
    Pepsy Mahunisi
    • Elder Leader
    • Director
      • Bob Misiorowski
    • Writers
      • Scott Devine
      • William Hooke
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    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Jenny McShane appears in the third Shark Attack movie, but plays a different character.
    • Goofs
      When Corinne looks down the microscope, she says that there is a hormone in the unusual-looking cell. You would not be able to see a hormone through a microscope and the cell is quite clearly a normal-looking eosinophil.
    • Quotes

      [last Lines]

      Machete Policeman: I'm glad I fed your brother to the sharks.

    • Crazy credits
      No Sharks were damaged or destroyed for the filming of this movie.
    • Connections
      Featured in Top 40 Shitty Shark Movies (2013)

    User reviews55

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    4/10
    Somebody Is Spiking The Sharks
    Scientist Cordell McQueen is killed in South Africa in an attack by a shark, the very thing he's gone there to investigate. A cryptic message left on his colleague Casper Van Dien's answering machine sends Van Dien and McQueen's sister Jenny McShane are off to South Africa to investigate.

    What they find when they reach the coastal village where the attack occurred is a town ready to die. The resort that Ernie Hudson operates has no tourists and the fisherman don't go out at all because they're afraid of the water. Over the past few years there's been an unaccounted for spike in the number of shark attacks. The only thing operating is a scientific research institute where another colleague Bentley C. Mitchum is conducting research into a cancer cure.

    Of course all this ties together with Mitchum conducting some really ghoulish experiments and Hudson playing everyone for suckers. Mitchum maybe thinking of a Nobel Prize for Medicine, but Hudson's got a far more practical motive for his actions.

    Shark Attack is your average action adventure film with the cast all fitting nicely into their roles. One thing I would have done was cut Mitchum's death scene, just have him die with no last words. That particular piece of dialog was truly atrocious. Someone should have sicced one of those spiked up sharks on the writers.
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    • Apr 12, 2010

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 16, 2015 (South Africa)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Israel
      • South Africa
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Акулы
    • Filming locations
      • Port Alfred, South Africa(Port Amanzi)
    • Production companies
      • Martien Holdings A.V.V.
      • Millennium Films
      • Sharky Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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