Stephen Spielberg does an excellent job adapting Peter Benchley’s novel for the screen. Of course, he’s got a running start thanks to the casting director, with Roy Scheider (as the everyman protagonist), Richard Dreyfus (as the nerdy scientist) and Robert Shaw (as the crusty old fisherman) all turning in outstanding performances. Even the now-legendary soundtrack plays a major part. Of course, by now much of the drama has become cliché, and the big rubber shark doesn’t compare favorably with the effects work Hollywood is doing now. But when it first came out, it was the film everyone in grade school wanted to see, and the one film our parents wouldn’t let us attend until we were older. Worth seeing
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