Jaws (1975)
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Reviews Counted: 33 Fresh: 33 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Consensus:
Jaws remains tense by not showing audiences the shark for the majority of the film, so that when it does, viewers jump out of their seats.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 20, 1975 Wide
Synopsis: From the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, Steven Spielberg directed this thrill ride of terror. During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley, Howard Sackler
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Composer: John Williams
Screenwriter: Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley, Howard Sackler
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown
Composer: John Williams
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A classic. Tense, engrossing, scary and, subsequently, endlessly influential.
09/24/07
Like all the best suspense films, "Jaws" manages to somehow remain amazingly tense, even if you've seen the film before. No wonder so many moviegoers went back for repeat viewings.
07/27/07
Steven Spielberg's mechanical thriller is guaranteed to make you scream on schedule.
06/27/07
Top Critic
The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.
06/27/07
Top Critic
A reminder that, once upon a time, Spielberg used to make films for adults rather than infants and critical regressives.
06/24/06
A true film of the 70s, all its characters have feet of clay… Yet Jaws boldly puts [them] to a test as dire as any faced by the granite-jawed supermen of earlier decades.
02/11/06
Achieves a number of cheap thrills at the expense of the mechanical shark.
07/03/05
Along with being a terrific character-driven (not plot) thriller, Jaws should be viewed against the broader context of 1975 as part of a cycle of paranoia films, reflecting the Vietnam War, Watergate scandal, anti-authoritarianism, and political apathy
06/26/05
Nowadays, it doesn't really scare me anymore, but I love watching it for the way it moves.
06/24/05
The first calculated summertime blockbuster...A whale of big-budget Hollywood entertainment.
06/17/05
Jaws' formula has become a facsimiled equation for profit, of which the opening is the preeminent, telling feature.
06/26/03
One of the greatest horror films made. The opening sequence is not only a classic, it's still frightening nearly three decades after it was made.
05/02/03
When it comes to this kind of thriller, no movie has been able to top Jaws, although many have tried. And, as the years go by, it seems increasingly unlikely that anything will come close.
12/12/02
Top Critic
I loved the film more this time than I had the first time I watched it.
02/28/02
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