MOVIES: Jaws

Jaws
Stephen Speilberg

Yes, this is the movie that kept me out of the deep end of the swimming pool as a child and out of the surf as an adult. I probably shouldn't have watched it over 400 times, but its morbidly fascinating and Richard Dreyfuss just cracks me up in this movie...he reminds me of my dad.

"Amazon review: 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"