88% (3) Jaws 124 min, PG, [Adventure, Drama, Thriller] [Steven Spielberg] [20 Jun 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 80%, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%, Metacritic: 87%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 18 nominations.
Actors: Lorraine Gary, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider
Writer: Peter Benchley (screenplay), Carl Gottlieb (screenplay), Peter Benchley (based on the novel by)
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Plot: It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a moonlight skinny dip while her friends party on the beach. Yanked suddenly below the ocean surface, she never returns. When pieces of her wash ashore, Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) suspects the worst, but Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), mindful of the lucrative tourist trade and the approaching July 4th holiday, refuses to put the island on a business-killing shark alert. After the shark dines on a few more victims, the Mayor orders the local fishermen to catch the culprit. Satisfied with the shark they find, the greedy Mayor reopens the beaches, despite the warning from visiting ichthyologist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) that the attacks were probably caused by a far more formidable Great White. One more fatality later, Brody and Hooper join forces with flinty old salt Quint (Robert Shaw), the only local fisherman willing to take on a Great White--especially since the price is right. The three ride off on Quint's boat "The Orca," soon coming face to teeth with the enemy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
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55% (3) Jaws 2 116 min, PG, [Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller] [Jeannot Szwarc] [16 Jun 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 57%, Rotten Tomatoes: 57%, Metacritic: 51%, External Reviews
Actors: Joseph Mascolo, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Roy Scheider
Writer: Peter Benchley (based upon characters created by), Carl Gottlieb, Howard Sackler
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Plot: Four years after the events of the original "Jaws", the town of Amity suddenly experiences series of mysterious boating accidents and disappearances. Chief of Police, Martin Brody, fears that another shark is out there, but he is ignored by the townsfolk. Unfortunately, he's right. There is another Great White in the sea. And it wants revenge.
Rotten Tomatoes: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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43% (3) 1941 118 min, PG, [Action, Comedy, War] [Steven Spielberg] [14 Dec 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, Rotten Tomatoes: 39%, Metacritic: 34%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Ned Beatty, Treat Williams
Writer: Robert Zemeckis (screenplay), Bob Gale (screenplay), Robert Zemeckis (story), Bob Gale (story), John Milius (story)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Japanese, German, Spanish Country: USA
Plot: Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. An assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion, in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness, along with a Captain in Germany's Kreigsmarine (Navy).
Rotten Tomatoes: It's December of 1941, and the people of California are in varying states of unease, ranging from a sincere desire to defend the country to virtual blind panic in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thus begin several story threads that comprise the "plot" of this strange period comedy, a sort of satirical disaster movie, from Steven Spielberg. The stories and story threads involve lusty young men, officers (Tim Matheson) and civilians (Bobby Di Cicco) alike, eager to bed the young ladies of their dreams; Wild Bill Kelso, a nutty fighter pilot (John Belushi) following what he thinks is a squadron of Japanese fighters along the California coast; a well-meaning but clumsy tank crew (including John Candy) led by straight-arrow, by-the-book Sgt. Tree (Dan Aykroyd), who doesn't recognize the thug (Treat Williams) in his command; and homeowner Ward Douglas (Ned Beatty), who is eager to do his part for the nation's defense and, despite the misgivings of his wife (Lorraine Gary), doesn't mind his front yard overlooking the ocean being chosen to house a 40 mm anti-aircraft gun. There is also a pair of grotesquely inept airplane spotters (Murray Hamilton, Eddie Deezen) who are doing their job from atop a ferris wheel at a beachfront amusement park; a paranoid army colonel (Warren Oates) positive that the Japanese are infiltrating from the hills; a big dance being held on behalf of servicemen, being attended by a lusty young woman of size (Wendie Jo Sperber) eager to land a man in uniform; and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell (Robert Stack), in charge of the defense of the West Coast, who can't seem to get anyone to listen to him when he says to keep calm. And, oh yes, there's also a real Japanese submarine that has gotten all the way to the California coast under the command of its captain (Toshiro Mifune) and a German officer observer (Christopher Lee), only to find itself without a working compass or usable maps. Its captain won't leave until the sub has attacked a militarily significant, honorable target, and the only one that anyone aboard ship knows of in California is Hollywood. By New Year's Eve, all of these characters are going to cross paths, directly or once-removed, in a comedy of errors and destruction strongly reminiscent of the finale to National Lampoon's Animal House (as well as several disaster movies from the same studio), but on a much larger and more impressive scale.
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14% (3) Jaws: The Revenge 89 min, PG-13, [Adventure, Horror, Thriller] [Joseph Sargent] [17 Jul 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 29%, Rotten Tomatoes: 0%, Metacritic: 15%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 7 nominations.
Actors: Karen Young, Lance Guest, Lorraine Gary, Mario Van Peebles
Writer: Peter Benchley (characters), Michael De Guzman
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Plot: After the encounter with the shark at Sea World, Sean Brody has returned to Amity. Here he has assumed his father's role, working for the police department, and is engaged to a young woman named Tiffany. His mother, Ellen, still lives in Amity as well. Mike Brody is now married to Carla and is researching conch snails with his partner, Jake, in the Bahamas. One night, while repairing a buoy in Amity harbor from the police boat, Sean is ambushed from below and killed by the Brodys' old enemy - a Great White Shark. After the funeral Ellen wants Mike to stay off the water, but he refuses and takes Ellen back to the Caribbean with him and his wife & daughter, Thea. Ellen starts trying to enjoy life again, meeting charming pilot Hoagie after having been a widow for some time. Mike & Jake encounter the Great White Shark on the water, and tag & track it for research. But the shark soon starts causing havoc, and comes after Thea on a banana boat ride! Now, Ellen, Mike, Jake & Hoagie will face the shark on his terms. Who will survive?
Rotten Tomatoes: Lorraine Gary stars as Ellen Brody, the widow of the police chief played by Roy Scheider in the first two films. She is now convinced that the shark has targeted her family for death.
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66% (1) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 96 min, R, [Drama, Fantasy] [Anthony Page] [29 Oct 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
Actors: Ben Piazza, Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Lorraine Gary
Writer: Joanne Greenberg (novel), Gavin Lambert (screenplay), Lewis John Carlino (screenplay)
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Plot: Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.
Rotten Tomatoes: Kathleen Quinlan stars as a schizophrenic teen treated by a sympathetic psychiatrist (Bibi Andersson) in this drama based on Hannah Green's bestseller.
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60% (1) Just You and Me, Kid 95 min, PG, [Comedy] [Leonard Stern] [13 Jul 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 60%, External Reviews
Awards: 3 nominations.
Actors: Brooke Shields, George Burns, Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger
Writer: Oliver Hailey (screenplay), Leonard Stern (screenplay), Tom Lazarus (story)
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Plot: George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by fourteen-year-old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this comedy, an elderly ex-vaudevillian is surprised to find a naked young woman in the trunk of his car. He soon discovers that she is a runaway fleeing from both the police and an enraged drug dealer she cheated out of $20,000. Meanwhile, the codger's daughter continually attempts to get him committed because of his overly generous support of his former colleagues.
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