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The Bay

  • 2012
  • R
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
29K
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The Bay (2012)
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town in the wake of an ecological disaster that turns the people of Chesapeake Bay into hosts for a mutant breed of parasites that take control of their minds, and eventually their bodies.
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Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

  • Director
    • Barry Levinson
  • Writers
    • Michael Wallach
    • Barry Levinson
  • Stars
    • Will Rogers
    • Kristen Connolly
    • Kether Donohue
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    29K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Barry Levinson
    • Writers
      • Michael Wallach
      • Barry Levinson
    • Stars
      • Will Rogers
      • Kristen Connolly
      • Kether Donohue
    • 194User reviews
    • 221Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 1 nomination

    Videos3

    Theatrical Version
    Trailer 2:29
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    The Bay: Culprit
    Clip 1:33
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    The Bay: Really Hurt
    Clip 0:58
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    Photos20

    Barry Levinson in The Bay (2012)
    Jane McNeill in The Bay (2012)
    The Bay (2012)
    Jane McNeill in The Bay (2012)
    Barry Levinson in The Bay (2012)
    The Bay (2012)
    The Bay (2012)
    Actress Kether Donohue with director Barry Levinson and actor Frank Deal at The Bay world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
    Kether Donohue, Barry Levinson, and Frank Deal
    Kether Donohue as Donna Thompson in The Bay.
    Kether Donohue as Donna Thompson in The Bay.
    The Bay (2012)

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    Will Rogers
    Will Rogers
    • Alex
    Kristen Connolly
    Kristen Connolly
    • Stephanie
    Kether Donohue
    Kether Donohue
    • Donna
    Frank Deal
    Frank Deal
    • Mayor Stockman
    Nansi Aluka
    Nansi Aluka
    • Jaquline
    Christopher Denham
    Christopher Denham
    • Sam
    Stephen Kunken
    Stephen Kunken
    • Dr. Abrams
    Kimberly Campbell
    • Nurse Rebecca
    Beckett Clayton-Luce
    • Charles
    Dave Hager
    • Fisher Jerry
    Tara Polhemus
    Tara Polhemus
    • Teenage Girl
    Sean Johnson
    • Teenage Boy
    Murat Erdan
    • Mike Radio Host
    • (as Murat 'Murf Dawg' Erdan)
    Lamya Jezek
    Lamya Jezek
    • Ms. Rosenblatt
    • (as Lamya Reynolds)
    Lucia Scarano
    Lucia Scarano
    • Marla Spadafora
    • (as Lucia Forte)
    Stacy Rabon
    Stacy Rabon
    • Middle Age Woman
    Charles Weaver
    • Water Rescue Worker
    Keyla S. Childs
    • Ms Crustacean
    • Director
      • Barry Levinson
    • Writers
      • Michael Wallach
      • Barry Levinson
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Director Barry Levinson was approached to do a documentary about the Chesapeake bay. He watched another documentey about the Chesapeake bay that talked about the pollution and the lack of fish. He said it was a great documentary but nobody will care about it. And so he said he would take all of the facts about the Chesapeake bay and turn it into a theatrical base piece.
    • Goofs
      The events take place in 2009. One of the characters shows her symptoms via FaceTime which did not debut until 2010.
    • Quotes

      Dr. Williams: This is Dr. Williams in Communical Disease. You believe you may have a bacterial case?

      Dr. Abrams: Not one, we have thirty.

      Dr. Williams: What?

      Dr. Abrams: I have thirty people in my waiting room right now.

      Dr. Williams: What are the symptoms?

    • Connections
      Referenced in Into the Unknown: Barry Levinson on 'the Bay' (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Red Cadillac and A Black Moustache
      Written by Lillian May & Willie Bea Thompson

      Performed by Warren Smith

    User reviews194

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    4/10
    Well directed, well acted, derailed by a dumb script.
    I realized tonight that there's a built in problem with mockumentary and found footage films. Whereas regular films create their own subtly pliable reality where disbelief can be stretched and molded as long as it's kept in context; mockumentary and found footage films ask us to believe that this is *our* reality - not a created one where things might work just a little bit differently.

    So let's say you're watching an regular horror movie and something happens that doesn't quite gel with our real world - let's say a cop goes up to a house, leaving his partner in the car, gunshots are heard in the house and the cop says "I'm going in" but the partner, instead of calling for backup and then going in with him - as would be standard common sense, let alone protocol - sits in the car and waits and waits instead...

    In a regular film you might be able to let that go.

    But in a film that's entire style and purpose is an attempt to make you believe it's real - errors like this take on a much greater importance. In fact, they're absolutely inexcusable, and that's why The Bay sucks.

    It's a shame too, because the actual found-footage and documentary style is directed well, with a lot of care and attention paid to realism. I'd go as far as to say this was the best handled "reality" film footage I've seen to date.

    Why then, would Barry Levinson settle on such a stupid script? The entire thing is riddled with bizarre errors, things that just wouldn't happen in our real world (the world the film asks us to place the context in). Things like the CDC being a NASA style call center where the five guys who take the calls are also the disease detectives, biological experts, and seemingly also authorized to make national security decisions. Or that the death of 700+ people in a single day in a town of thousands could be silenced with a simple financial payoff, or even smaller things like a high powered lawyer not checking her cellphone for 8 hours.

    So ultimately, very well acted, very well directed but completely derailed by a script that's dumber than a box of rocks.
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    • The_Dead_See
    • Apr 9, 2013

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    • Release date
      • November 21, 2012 (Belgium)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Затока
    • Filming locations
      • Georgetown, South Carolina, USA
    • Production companies
      • Automatik Entertainment
      • Haunted Movies
      • Hydraulx
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $30,668
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,747
      • Nov 4, 2012
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,581,252
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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