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Jaws

  • 19751975
  • PGPG
  • 2h 4m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
594K
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POPULARITY
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Susan Backlinie in Jaws (1975)
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When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
594K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
153
25
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    • Director
      • Steven Spielberg
    • Writers
      • Peter Benchley(screenplay)
      • Carl Gottlieb(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Roy Scheider
      • Robert Shaw
      • Richard Dreyfuss
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Steven Spielberg
    • Writers
      • Peter Benchley(screenplay)
      • Carl Gottlieb(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Roy Scheider
      • Robert Shaw
      • Richard Dreyfuss
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.4KUser reviews
    • 295Critic reviews
    • 87Metascore
    Top rated movie #206
    • Won 3 Oscars
      • 15 wins & 20 nominations total

    Videos12

    Jaws: Blu-Ray
    Trailer 1:08
    Jaws: Blu-Ray
    Jaws: Universal 100th Anniversary: Blu-Ray
    Trailer 0:22
    Jaws: Universal 100th Anniversary: Blu-Ray
    Jaws: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
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    Jaws: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
    A Guide to the Films of Steven Spielberg
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    A Guide to the Films of Steven Spielberg
    Jaws, Shreks, & Lion Kings: A Summer Blockbuster History
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    Jaws: Universal 100th Anniversary: Blu-Ray
    Featurette 8:25
    Jaws: Universal 100th Anniversary: Blu-Ray
    How 'The Wrong Missy' Cast Nailed Their No-Filter Roles
    Interview 3:41
    How 'The Wrong Missy' Cast Nailed Their No-Filter Roles
    The Evolution of Steven Spielberg
    Video 4:23
    The Evolution of Steven Spielberg
    Sharks on Sharks: The "Shark Tank" Judges Pick Their Favorite Shark Movies
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    Sharks on Sharks: The "Shark Tank" Judges Pick Their Favorite Shark Movies
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    "Dates in Movie & TV History": July 4
    Video 2:42
    "Dates in Movie & TV History": July 4

    Photos382

    Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
    Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, and Chris Rebello in Jaws (1975)
    Steven Spielberg in Jaws (1975)
    Jaws (1975)
    Roy Scheider in Jaws (1975)
    Steven Spielberg in Jaws (1975)
    Richard D. Zanuck in Jaws (1975)
    Steven Spielberg in Jaws (1975)
    Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws (1975)
    Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
    Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)
    Robert Shaw in Jaws (1975)

    Top cast

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    Roy Scheider
    Roy Scheider
    • Brody
    Robert Shaw
    Robert Shaw
    • Quint
    Richard Dreyfuss
    Richard Dreyfuss
    • Hooper
    Lorraine Gary
    Lorraine Gary
    • Ellen Brody
    Murray Hamilton
    Murray Hamilton
    • Vaughn
    Carl Gottlieb
    Carl Gottlieb
    • Meadows
    Jeffrey Kramer
    Jeffrey Kramer
    • Hendricks
    • (as Jeffrey C. Kramer)
    Susan Backlinie
    Susan Backlinie
    • Chrissie
    Jonathan Filley
    • Cassidy
    Ted Grossman
    • Estuary Victim
    Chris Rebello
    Chris Rebello
    • Michael Brody
    Jay Mello
    • Sean Brody
    Lee Fierro
    Lee Fierro
    • Mrs. Kintner
    Jeffrey Voorhees
    • Alex Kintner
    Craig Kingsbury
    • Ben Gardner
    Robert Nevin
    Robert Nevin
    • Medical Examiner
    • (as Dr. Robert Nevin)
    Peter Benchley
    Peter Benchley
    • Interviewer
    Jonathan Searle
    • Boy Swimmer with Cardboard Fin
    • Director
      • Steven Spielberg
    • Writers
      • Peter Benchley(screenplay) (based on the novel by)
      • Carl Gottlieb(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.
    • Goofs
      The word ORCA on the back of the boat continually changes from shot to shot varying from very rusty letters to shiny letters.
    • Quotes

      [the three men are comparing their scars]

      Brody: What's that one?

      Quint: What?

      Brody: That one, there, on your arm.

      Quint: Oh, uh, that's a tattoo, I got that removed.

      Hooper: Don't tell me, don't tell me..."Mother."

      [he roars with laughter]

      Hooper: What is it...

      [Quint solemnly clamps a hand on Hooper's arm]

      Quint: Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis.

      [Hooper immediately stops laughing]

      Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?

      Brody: What happened?

      Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh.

      [he pauses and takes a drink]

      Quint: They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.

      [he pauses]

      Quint: Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

      [he pauses, smiles, and raises his glass]

      Quint: Anyway... we delivered the bomb.

    • Crazy credits
      The three leads are credited using a placement that was popular in the 1970s, making it unclear who receives first credit. Robert Shaw's name is vertically above Roy Scheider's, but Scheider's is to the left. Richard Dreyfuss, being the least experienced, is last whichever way you read it.
    • Alternate versions
      The version shown in recent years on television (as of 2005) includes a lengthier scene where the crazed fishermen hunt sharks to collect Mrs. Kinter's reward. It shows them crazily firing rifles into the water, much like a shark feeding frenzy. The extended version of Jaws was actually shown on TV back in the 1980s, at least occasionally, in order to achieve a running time of 3 hours including commercial interruptions. The shark hunting frenzy mentioned here, in addition to Matt Hooper telling a story about an ex-lover to Chief Brody on their way to dissect the tiger shark, as well as Quint's badgering of a young musician in a bait and tackle store were all included in many syndicated television broadcasts long before "Deleted Scenes" were ever part of home video packaging.
    • Connections
      Edited from Inner Space: Man Eater (1973)
    • Soundtracks
      Untitled Improvised Campfire Guitar Music
      (uncredited)

      Performed by Mike Haydn

    User reviews1.4K

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    Top review
    10/10
    Jaws
    A man eating shark is terrorising the holiday island of Amity. Police chief Martin Brody, shark hunter Quint and marine biologist Matt Hooper set sail in the hope of killing the great white monster.

    Jaws is responsible for many things, it's responsible for propelling director Steven Spielberg's career into the stratosphere, it was responsible for a downturn in the package holiday trade, and it was responsible for shaping the summer blockbuster release practise's. There are many other things which one doesn't need to bore you with, it's just true to say that Jaws is firmly ensconced in movie history, if one hasn't seen it then one surely knows about it, it is, even today, part of popular culture.

    But is it any good? Is it worthy of a long standing reputation as one of the greatest monster movies of all time? Hell yes it is, one or two easily overlooked flaws aside, it busted the box office {world wide} and tapped into a primal fear that resides in the majority of mankind, the unseen that resides in the sea.

    Jaws sets out its marker right from the start with a truly shocking and attention grabbing opening sequence, from then on in Spielberg {learning from Hitchcock for sure} tweaks the tension to have the audience living on their nerves, even as character building {by way of Brody's family arc} sedates the pace, we just know that it's all relative to an extension of fear and terror that is around the next corner. After the first victims remains are found Brody glances out at the ocean, Spielberg perfectly framing the shot to say so much that we are about to be witness to. Jolts and shocks pop up from time to time to help build the unease whilst Spielberg makes the audience wait before we even see what it is that so coldly and efficiently destroys man, and then the claustrophobic switch as our brave protagonists are out at sea on Quint's boat, unaware that the giant menace is now hunting them, eyes as black as death itself.

    So many great scenes linger for all time in the memory, the entrance of Quint is a hum dinger, a mournful widow reducing Brody to a stunned realism, the Indianappolis monologue, the bigger boat! Just some of the reasons why I personally love cinema so much. The score from John Williams is as effective as any for the genre and Robert Hoyt's sound team's work furthers the dread unfolding. The cast are superb and uniformly excellent, casting aside technical problems {and genuine resentment at times} to portray this story with verve and genuine depth of feeling. Yet Roy Scheider {Brody}, Robert Shaw {Quint} and Richard Dreyfuss {Hooper} were from from original choices, Charlton Heston was wanted for the role of Brody, Sterling Hayden and Lee Marvin were both mooted for Quint, and John Voight was Spielberg's preferred choice for Hooper, whilst Jaws author {and co screen writer here} Peter Benchley was heading for the top by asking for Newman, Redford and McQueen!! Imagine that!

    Still it all turned out well in the end because Jaws stands the test of time as one of the best films of its type to have ever been made. No amount of complaining about continuity and a rough looking mechanical shark will ever dim its appeal, even as I revisited it recently for the hundredth time I still got tingles all over my body, file it along side King Kong in the pantheon of Monster Masterpieces, 10/10 always, now go enjoy your dip in the ocean.
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    • Jun 12, 2008

    FAQ22

    • Hooper tells Quint that he's "crewed three Transpacs". What does he mean?
    • Why does Quint destroy the boat radio?
    • Why does Quint call great whites 'porkers'?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 20, 1975 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Stillness in the Water
    • Filming locations
      • Water Street, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
    • Production companies
      • Zanuck/Brown Productions
      • Universal Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $7,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $260,758,300
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,061,513
      • Jun 22, 1975
    • Gross worldwide
      • $471,411,300
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 4 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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