HAPPY 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO BRUCE! Let's sink our teethers into this iconic movie that set the bar HIGH for all shark flicks to come.
Movie Details:
Country of Origin: United States
Release date: June 20, 1975 (U.S.)
Run time: 2 Hr 4 Min
Director: Steven Spielberg (E.T., Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan)
Writer(s): Peter Benchley (wrote novel, cameo as new reporter on the beach), Carl Gottlieb
Producer(s): David Brown, Richard Zanuch
Composer: John Williams (THE GOAT)
Cinematographer: Bill Butler (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Grease)
Editing: Verna Fields
Actors: Roy Scheider (Brody), Robert Shaw (Quint), Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper), Lorraine Gary (Ellen)
Genre: Monster horror, sea adventure, survival, thriller
Rating and why: PG (great for kids)
Film location(s): Massachusetts, Australia, LA
Budget: 70M
Box office: 478M worldwide, 7M opening weekend (US & Canada), 267M gross (US & Canada)
Awards: Oscar Winner: Best Sound, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Original Dramatic Score.
Timeframe: Summer of 1975
Setting: Amity Island off coast of New York
Synopsis: Shark eats multiple people before anyone does anything about it.
Tagline: “You’ll never go in the water again”
Watch on: Peacock and Rent on Prime Video
IMDb - 8.1 (698K) #202 in Top 250
Letterboxd - 3.9 (148K)
Rotten Tomatoes - 97% critic (149), 90% audience (250K+)
Metacritic metascore - 87 (21 critics) ”Universal Acclaim, Must-See”, 8.7 (779 users) “Universal Acclaim”
Critic consensus (RT) - “Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.”
Our Ratings:
Dylan - 4.2
Jesse - 4.7
Dawson - 5.2