The Shallows [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray]

Director: Sérgio Graciano, Lynn Harris, Matti Leshem Sérgio Graciano

Overview

Young surfer Nancy (Blake Lively) travels to a secluded beach in search of a secret spot that her mother had discovered years earlier. While paddling out into the waves, she is hunted by a great white shark and stranded on an embankment away from the shoreline. Alone and wounded, she attempts to survive the attack and get ashore in this thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/27/2016
UPC:	0043396470804
Original Release:	2016
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Sony Pictures
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	6,179

Special Features

Deleted scenes; How to build a Shark; Shooting in the shallows; Finding the perfect beach: Lord Howe Island; When Sharks attack

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Óscar Jaenada	Carlos,Actor
Sedona Legge	Chloe
Angelo Josue	Actor
Lozano Corzo	Actor,Surfer
Trujillo Salas	Surfer,Surfer
Pablo Calva	Boy
Janelle Bailey	Mom
Ava Dean	Young Nancy
Chelsea Moody	Young Mom
Diego Espejel	Intoxicated Man
Sully Seagull	Actor
Dânia Neto	Actor
José Afonso Pimentel	Actor
Dalila Carmo	Actor
Diogo Amaral	Actor
Lourenço Ortigão	Actor
Catarina Gouveia	Actor
Jose Manuel	Surfer

Technical Credits

Anthony Jaswinski

Adam Kreutner

David Mitchell

Sérgio Graciano	Director
Lynn Harris	Director
Matti Leshem	Director,Producer
Leonel Vieira	Producer
Douglas C. Merrifield	Producer,Producer,Executive Producer,Executive Producer
Jaume Collet-Serra	Producer,Executive Producer
Anthony Jaswinski	Screenwriter
Adam Kreutner	Screenwriter
David Mitchell	Screenwriter
Justin M. Davey	Sound Effects
Sarah Monat	Sound Effects
Chris Terhune	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

"You're gonna need a bigger buoy." No, that's not a line from The Shallows, the pulse-quickening thriller starring Blake Lively as Nancy Adams, a stranded, bleeding surfer who is hunted by a great white shark. But the thought does occur when she scrambles atop a slim buoy, anchored a couple hundred yards offshore, as it's being encircled by her sharp-toothed predator. There's no way that skinny platform can protect her. When the shark begins to hammer the floating life preserver, our worst fears -- and Nancy's -- start to materialize. Nope, it's not gonna be enough -- not nearly enough. So, just how did Nancy get into this predicament? We quickly learn that this blonde, athletic adventurer is a medical-school dropout from Galveston, TX, who is grieving the recent death of her mother. She hitches a ride to a secluded beach in Mexico, where her mom loved to surf, in order to clear her head and figure out her future. Nancy meets a couple of local surfers after being jilted by a hungover friend, but when they leave she decides to catch one last wave by herself. Big mistake: While alone, she's attacked and bitten by a massive shark. With blood flowing from a deep gash in her leg, Nancy manages to swim to a craggy rock, where she uses her medical know-how to stitch up her wound with her crescent-shaped earrings and necklace. She's safe for now, but she's lost a lot of blood and her tiny safe haven will disappear when high tide returns. What to do? The Shallows is Jaws-lite, but that isn't a criticism. While the film doesn't come close to possessing the depth of Steven Spielberg's classic, it does offer plenty of well-earned jolts and scares to satisfy moviegoers looking for escapist summertime fare. Director Jaume Collet-Sera (Orphan, Run All Night) and cinematographer Flavio Martinez LaBiano fill the screen early on with lush images of sand and surf -- and lovely glimpses of Lively's well-toned body -- but when terror strikes and the majestic blue water turns Tarantino red, they heighten the suspense as darkness, literally and figuratively, descends upon our heroine. Nancy is all alone, save for a wounded seagull who provides some deadpan humor and companionship, as the nighttime cold envelopes her. It's a terrifying situation that is made all the more convincing by Lively's perfectly modulated performance. She goes from glamour girl to panic-stricken to fearless over the course of 87 sleek minutes, forcing us see that underneath her smokin'-hot physique is a smart, determined woman who isn't going to allow a bullying shark to turn her into his next snack. The film isn't perfect, however. It's hard to believe that Nancy's friend never comes to look for her, and no shark would act the way the one here does. (Of course, the same is true of the predator in Jaws, which is what produced the drama.) The shark, after having chomped down on three other people and a nearby dying whale (which is what drew it into the shallow waters to begin with), would likely be full and leave poor Nancy alone. But what fun would that be? The Shallows isn't anything more than a high-concept, B-movie diversion, and it doesn't pretend otherwise. You can almost hear the pitch session to the would-be producers: "Blake Lively surfs in a barely there bikini on a secluded, pristine beach in Mexico, where she's forced to battle a nasty great white shark in open water." Who wouldn't write a check for that? Or buy a ticket?