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Overall5.8
Fear4.0
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Gore4.0
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survival
The Shallows
2016 · PG-13 · 1h 26m
What was once in the deep is now in the shallows.
The shark is hangry.
Medical student Nancy Adams surfs a remote Mexican beach where her late mother once surfed — and finds herself stranded on a small rock barely 200 yards from shore after a great white tears through her leg. The tide is rising. The shark is patient. The Shallows is a lean, single-location survival thriller carried almost entirely by Blake Lively and one impressively committed seagull.
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Fear6.0
Gore4.0
Atmosphere3.0
LanguageEnglish
RatingPG-13
Running time1h 26m
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Nancy Adams is a medical student who has dropped out of school following her mother's death. She travels to a remote beach in Mexico — a secret spot her mother once loved — to surf and, in some loose way, to grieve. The beach is beautiful and empty. The surfing is good. Then she paddles into the feeding ground of a great white, and it takes a chunk of her leg.
She makes it to a small rock formation about 200 yards from shore — barely above the waterline, shared with an injured seagull she names Steven. She uses her wetsuit to tourniquet her leg and takes stock. The shark is still out there, circling. The tide is coming in. The rock will be submerged in hours.
People arrive at the beach in stages — a drunk local, two surfers — and the shark kills each of them before they can help. Nancy watches, unable to do anything. She is, by training, a doctor who walked away from medicine; she uses that training now to close her wound with her own earring and stay functional.
The tide rises. Nancy spots a buoy and a rusted metal structure beneath the surface. She lures the shark into charging the structure, impaling it. It thrashes and goes still. She swims for shore.
The final scene is set a year later. Nancy is surfing again, this time with her father and younger sister watching from the beach. She paddled back in.
