Jaws author Peter Benchley died Saturday at the age of 65. Idiopathic fibrosis, a condition marked by the progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs, did in the writer, on whose novel the best killer-shark movie ever was based.read more
Feature trailer for The Deep. In the frigid waters off the shore of Iceland, a man fights for his survival.
Another man-eating great white shark resurfaces off the coast of Amity.
Scenes from Jaws Fest, the 30th anniversary of the film on Martha\'s Vineyard. Steven Spielberg\'s film is generally considered one of the scariest movies ever made. The frightfest is based on the book by Peter Benchley. The plot is simple: The tourist season of a resort island is devoured by a great white shark. The ensuing "fishing trip" to catch the monstrous man-eater is filmed with power and suspense and plenty of scares that has had audiences jumping out of their seats for decades--and staying out of the water.
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A man-eating shark single-mindedly pursues a woman and her son.
Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays writer Dorothy Parker -- one of the Prohibition era's wittiest and most tragic intellects -- through her triumphs and trials as a fixture of Manhattan's legendary literary cadre known as the Algonquin Round Table.
Jennifer Jason Leigh portrays writer Dorothy Parker -- one of the Prohibition era's wittiest and most tragic intellects.
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