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Tag Archives: Steven Spielberg
Savage (1973) Steven Spielberg, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Will Geer
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court. Read More »
Something Evil (1972) Steven Spielberg, Darren McGavin, Sandy Dennis, Ralph Bellamy
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. Read More »
The Color Purple (1985) Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey
Forty years in the life of Celie, a poor black woman who endures years of abuse from her father and her husband. Read More »
Hook (1991) Steven Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy’s granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.
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Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
It’s a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn’t sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy’s mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they’re going to need a bigger boat.
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