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  1. Jaws movie review & film summary (1975)

    "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 ...

  2. Jaws movie review & film summary (1975)

    Probably the most inspired piece of casting in the movie is the use of Richard Dreyfuss as the oceanographer. He made this film soon after playing the driven, scheming, overwhelmingly ambitious title character in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," and the nice kid, college-bound, in "American Graffiti."Here he looks properly young, engaging, and scholarly, and introduces the technical ...

  3. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it

    E ditor's note: This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," a revolutionary film for the director, movie soundtracks and skinny-dippers everywhere.

  4. 'Jaws' Review: 1975 Movie

    A blockbuster arrived in U.S. theaters on June 20, 1975. The PG-rated, 124-minute feature adaptation of the best-selling novel Jaws quickly captured the attention of summer moviegoing audiences ...

  5. Jaws

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  6. Jaws (1975)

    Jaws (1975) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. ... 1,529 reviews. Hide spoilers. Review. Featured. Ratings Show all. Sort by Featured. 9 /10. It holds up. I saw this movie again after a few ...

  7. Jaws Movie Review

    Though Jaws is one of Steven Spielberg's early films, his adept building up of the tension -- heightened by the now almost universally known two-note "shark attack" music provided by John Williams-- shines in both the shark attack scenes and in the spaces in which the story and the characters have room to develop. Even with a shark that doesn't ...

  8. Jaws

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  9. Jaws(1975) imo is the greatest movie ever made : r/movies

    Jaws is a fantastic movie no doubt. after that big speech Mrs Kintner gives chief brody if you watch Jaws 4 the revenge HER and Mrs Brody are now the best of friends. makes for a little interesting call back to the first movie. Jaws is such a great movie it didn't need a sequel.

  10. Jaws (film)

    Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.