The Abyss PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ed Harris & Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | |
Performer: | Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Chris Elliott & Todd Graff | |
Directed by | James Cameron | |
Screenwriting by | James Cameron | |
Composition by | Alan Silvestri | |
Produced by | Gale Anne Hurd | |
Director of Photography: | Mikael Salomon |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Great blending of spectacle and drama.
ColeSmithey.com
Rating: C+ --
As a follow-up to Cameron's great sci-fi Aliens, The Abyss is too verbose for an actioner and the special effects, striking as they are, are not well integrated into the narrative, but it's still worth seeing.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The human stuff is more than worth the descent.
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Washington Post
...[A] stupendously exciting and emotionally engulfing film....With probing intelligence and passionate feeling, Cameron has raised the adventure film very close to the level of art...
Rolling Stone
Colossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 2/4 --
The attempt to extract the essences of several genres (cold-war submarine thriller, love story, Disney fantasy, pseudomystical SF in the Spielberg mode) and mix them together ultimately leads to giddy incoherence.
Chicago Reader
Rating: A --
The movie was a bear to make and it shows onscreen, parading around a series of mesmerizing set-pieces that look deliciously hard-earned in ways our current CG-drenched filmmaking climate never allows.
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BrianOrndorf.com
Product Description:
After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in a remote part of the ocean floor, a team of divers on a prototype underwater oil rig are pressed into service by the U.S. Navy in a rescue attempt. When a hurricane cuts off contact between the surface and the underwater depths, the crew begin to see evidence of a strange, possibly alien intelligence at work. While chief Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) bickers with his ex-wife and boss (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), the Navy commander begins to grow increasingly paranoid about the mysterious alien life and threatens to use a recovered nuclear weapon to destroy everything. James Cameron's undersea epic is a tale of sacrifice and hope in an amazing alien landscape that covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Featuring landmark visual effects but plagued by production difficulties, the cast and crew were stretched to the breaking point and THE ABYSS became one of the most expensive films ever made in its time, but the final result is a remarkable blend of action and human drama. Scenes cut from the theatrical version, including a number of special effects sequences involving huge tidal waves threatening the cities of the world, are restored in the Special Edition versions.
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- UPC: 024543037354
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