Jaws

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Jaws - 30th Anniversary Edition -2 Disc Set

During the height of beach season, the Massachusetts resort town of Amity Island is terrorized one summer by surprise attacks from a great white shark. Three unlikely partners team up to hunt down the rogue and destroy it: the new chief of police from New York (Roy Scheider), a young university-educated oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss), and a crusty old-time fisherman (Robert Shaw). Screenplay from Carl Gottleib and Peter Benchley, from his best-selling novel.

"Jaws was released in 1975, quickly becoming the highest-grossing picture made up to that time, and forever wresting the summer releasing season away from B movies and exploitation pictures. The major Hollywood studios, which had avoided summer, now identified it as the prime releasing season, and "Jaws" inspired hundreds of summer thrillers and f/x pictures. For [Director Steven] Spielberg, the movie was the launching pad for the most extraordinary directorial career in modern movie history. Before "Jaws," he was known as the gifted young director of films such as "Duel" (1971) and "Sugarland Express" (1974), After "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), he was the king." ----- Roger Ebert

Selected for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry of American Film.

DVD - 2 Disc Set

Widescreen
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French
The Making of Jaws For the first time ever on DVD, viewers will get a complete glimpse into the making of Jaws with this two-hour documentary.
From The Set An insider's look at life on the set of Jaws, featuring a never-before-available interview with Steven Spielberg.
Deleted Scenes
Outtakes
Jaws Archives Take a peek inside the Jaws archives including storyboards, production photos, and marketing materials, as well as a special segment on the Jaws phenomenon.

Curator's Comments:
Read Roger Ebert's essay on this DVD Classic.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Color
125 minutes
Released:1975
Rated: PG

Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller

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