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Directed by: Steven Spielberg 
Written by: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb from Benchley’s novel
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| Released: |
1975 |
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| Genre: |
ACTION
ADVENTURE
MONSTER
HORROR
THRILLER
IMPORTANT
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
125 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| “If you think about Jaws for more than 45 seconds, you will recognize it as nonsense, but it's the sort of nonsense that can be a good deal of fun if you like to have the wits scared out of you at irregular intervals.” |
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| "A perfectly acceptable and sometimes genuinely exciting entry in the disaster stakes... The sense of edgy unease is beautifully transmitted in a series of tiny, throwaway moments .. Spielberg almost manages to invest the shark ... with the quality of a Jungian archetype. His good work, unfortunately, is partially undone by a script straining to become Herman Melville and ending the portentous profundities attached to Robert Shaw's Quint ... by projecting him ... into the jaws of his own unconvincing, mechanical Moby Dick." |
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| "The whole film is very educational... To be fair to this film, and I can't see why I should be, it is an improvement on [the] book." |
| (Kenneth Robinson, Spectator) |
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| "The word went around that [it] was a vagina dentata movie symbolizing the psychological violence of the devouring vagina and the threatened male... I ... feel it is a really important film with interest especially for feminists... Analysis of the imagery... reflects the underlying or unconscious workings of ideology, which can be defined as the unconscious set of ideas that cultural products made by the dominant class, reflect and reproduce." |
| (Griselda Pollock, Spare Rib) |
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| “The perfect movie for anyone with a larger-than-life castration complex.” |
| (Woman's Wear Daily) |
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| “Maybe it’s just a monster movie reminiscent of all those ‘50s sci-fi films, but it’s at least endowed with intelligent characterisation, a lack of sentimentality (in contrast to, say, E.T.) and it really is frightening.” |
| (Geoff Andrew, Time Out) |
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, Richard Dreyfuss 