Jaws
- MPAA Rating
- PG
- Theatrical Release Date
- Jun 19, 1975
- Genre(s)
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- Thrillers
- Steven Spielberg
- Drama
- Action & Adventure
- Mystery & Suspense
- Rating (Stars)
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- Description
- In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific movie, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great-white-shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat--as the three of them realize that in fact the shark is hunting them--are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. --Marshall Fine
- Director
- NULL
- Stars
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- Susan Backlinie
- John Bahr
- Peter Benchley
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Lee Fierro
- Running Time
- 125 minutes
- Original Price
- $14.98
- Current Value
- $3.99
- DVD Features
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- Anamorphic
- Closed-captioned
- Color
- Dolby
- DVD-Video
- Subtitled
- Widescreen
- NTSC
- 2.35:1