The Shallows

2016
PG-13
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Drama Horror Thriller

A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.

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Awards
- 1 win & 15 nominations total

Surfer
(as Jose Manuel Trujillo Salas)

Brett Cullen

Sedona Legge

Chloe

Pablo Calva

Diego Espejel

Intoxicated Man

Janelle Bailey

Ava Dean

Young Nancy

Chelsea Moody

Young Mom

Sully Seagull

Sully 'Steven' Seagull
(as Sully 'Steven' Seagall)

Director
- Jaume Collet-Serra
Writer
- Anthony Jaswinski
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
Steven Seagull's name in real life is Sully. He lives (to this day) in a seagull sanctuary in Australia. Two extra seagulls were used to portray Steven Seagull. According to producer Matti Leshem, she added "They were all good but not nearly as good as him. Peggy was the vocal one, the very squawky bird. Gaviota (which means seagull in Spanish), I think he's almost 30 [as Steven is estimated to be about 15 or 20 years old]. The most challenging thing about Sully as an actor is that seagulls are remarkably clean. They self clean a lot, so the blood on Sully, obviously fake blood, he kept wanting to clean it off, so we had to deal with that."

Goofs
As all experienced surfers (as Nancy clearly is) would know, a whale carcass is almost guaranteed to attract sharks. Coming across one, a surfer would have hightailed it back to shore as fast as possible to avoid becoming part of a buffet. They would not move in for a closer look and hang about ogling it.

Quotes
Chloe: Are you ready to get wet, Dr. Adams?

Crazy credits
As himself, Steven "Sully" Seagull.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Blake Lively/Luke Wilson/Mumford & Sons feat. Baaba Maal & Beatenberg (2016)

Soundtracks
El Lado Más Bestia de la Vida (Walk On The Wild Side)
Written by Lou Reed
Performed by Albert Pla
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment España, S.L.
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Nancy and Carlos are driving to the beach.

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Featured review

8/10

For the most part, riveting

I have a couple of issues with this film (occasionally too much CGI, and a weird ending) but for the majority of its brief, 86-minutes-long run, this is a riveting film, exquisitely filmed in the Gold Coast of Australia, about a survivor of a shark attack clinging to life, figuratively and literally, on the side of a rock 200 feet from shore, with the shark still circling the waters.

Normally watered down PG13-rating gives way to some surprisingly grisly bursts of gore, as she tries to suture her wounds with makeshift surgical tools, and a couple of brutal attack scenes.

The film makes the most of a small cast, and Blake Lively carries the film almost entirely herself, spending at least two thirds of the film completely isolated. Well, she's not completely alone, she also has Steven "Sully" Seagull, as himself.