The Shallows is a 2016 American survival horror thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, written by Anthony Jaswinski and starring Blake Lively. In the film, a surfer gets stranded 200 yards from shore, and must use her wits and determination to survive agreat white shark attack. Principal photography began in October 2015 in New South Wales, Australia.
The film was released in the United States on June 24, 2016 by Columbia Pictures. The film received positive reviews and has grossed over $116 million against $17 million budget, becoming a box office success.
Plot
Shortly after the death of her mother, medical student Nancy Adams (Blake Lively) travels to a secluded beach in Mexico, the same beach her mother visited while she was pregnant with Nancy. Carlos (Oscar Jaenada), a friendly local resident, gives her a ride and drops her off at the beach. Nancy joins two other people, and the three surf for several hours.
Taking a break from surfing, Nancy video-chats with her sister Chloe (Sedona Legge) to let her know that she is surfing at their mother's beach. When she talks to her father (Brett Cullen), it is revealed that her mother's death has caused Nancy to consider dropping out of medical school. The conversation becomes emotional and strained, and Nancy hangs up to catch one more wave in the late afternoon before heading back to her hotel.
While waiting for a wave, Nancy notices the carcass of a large humpback whale nearby. As she rides a wave back to the beach, a large great white shark bumps her surf board and bites her leg. Nancy climbs onto the whale carcass, but the shark rams it from underneath. Nancy swims to an isolated rock, and uses her surfboard strap and several items to slow the bleeding. The two locals, unaware of Nancy's situation, leaves the beach, and Nancy spend the night on the rock with a wounded seagull, whom she names Steven Seagull, after Steven Seagal.
The next morning, Nancy sees a drunk local man passed out on the beach. She gets his attention, but instead of offering to help he steals her phone, money, and backpack. He notices her surfboard floating in shallow water, and wades out to retrieve it, only to be torn in half by the shark. Several hours later, the two locals Nancy had surfed with the day before return. They get into the water before Nancy can warn them away, and are killed by the shark. One man was wearing a helmet with an action camera, which Nancy retrieves. She records a message for her father and sister, and throws the helmet toward the shore.
With high tide approaching, Nancy knows the rock will be submerged soon. After timing the shark's circles from the whale carcass to the rock, Nancy swims to a nearby buoy, narrowly avoiding the shark by swimming through a group of jellyfish, which sting both the shark and her. Nancy finds a flare gun on the buoy, but fails to draw the attention of a passing cargo ship farther out to sea. She shoots a flare at the shark, which catches fire due to the floating whale blubber, but it dives underwater. The shark begins furiously attacking the buoy, ripping out the chains securing it to the ocean bed. Nancy grabs onto the last remaining chain, and, as it is ripped from the buoy, she is violently pulled down to the ocean floor. The shark chases Nancy down towards the sea floor at high speed. At the last moment, Nancy pulls out of the dive and the shark impales itself on some rebarsprouting from of the buoy's concrete anchor.
A boy playing soccer at the beach finds the action camera, and runs to call his father (who turns out to be Carlos). Carlos finds Nancy floating in the shallows and revives her. Nancy briefly sees a hallucination of her mother. As she looks around the beach, she sees that Steven has made it to the shore.
One year later, Nancy (now a doctor) and Chloe are going surfing in Galveston, Texas as her father tells her that her mother would have been proud.
Cast[edit]
- Blake Lively as Nancy Adams
- Óscar Jaenada as Carlos
- Brett Cullen as Nancy's father
- Sedona Legge as Chloe Adams
- Angelo José Lozano Corzo as Surfer 1
- José Manuel Trujillo Salas as Surfer 2
- Pablo Calva as Carlos' son
- Diego Espejel as Drunk man
- Janelle Bailey as Nancy's mother
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