# Jaws (1975)

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**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: Horror, Thriller, Adventure
**Directed by**: Steven Spielberg
**Written by**: Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley
**Starring**: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb

> *The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

August on Amity’s beaches, the lifeguard stand empty but for a single torn bathing suit.
A severed leg floats past the docks at dusk. The mayor refuses to close the water. A boy vanishes at noon.
Quint strips copper from old hulls, Brody counts the missing swimmers in tax dollars, Hooper still photographs teeth.
Out past the surf they find a boat too small for the creature inside it.

**Mood tags**: dread, raw

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.1/10 (731140 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 87/100

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