The Shallows (2016)
The Shallows
”A surfer battles a great white shark 200 meters offshore.”
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After Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws', life of this sea creature has never been the same. Although rare, events of human death involving sharks have stayed in people's imagination -- much due to cinema, which continues to explore this figure in horror movies around. And the tense 'The Shallows' is one more production in this sense. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra ('Unknown', 'Orphan'), the feature film tells the story of a surfer who gets stuck on an island when she finds herself in a hunting area of a white shark. Anguishing and with good performance by Blake Lively, 'The Shallows' is not as good as Spielberg's production, but shows that it is still possible to scare many people with this sea animal.
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Just two hundred meters offshore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, and her short trip to safety has become the ultimate contest of wills.
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