A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.
- Awards
- 1 win & 15 nominations
Joseph Salas
- Surfer
- (as Jose Manuel Trujillo Salas)
Sully Seagull
- Sully 'Steven' Seagull
- (as Sully 'Steven' Seagall)
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- Writer
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- TriviaBlake Lively only had a stunt double for the surfing scenes as she couldn't surf professionally, "All I did was paddle" she recalled, her surfing stunt double was professional Australian Surfer 19 year old Isabella Nichols, she taught Blake how to paddle correctly, how to wax a board and put a leg rope on and fins in to make it look authentic.
- GoofsAs all experienced surfers (as Nancy clearly is) would know, a whale carcass is almost guaranteed to attract sharks. Coming across one, a surfer would have hightailed it back to shore as fast as possible to avoid becoming part of a buffet. They would not move in for a closer look and hang about ogling it.
- Crazy creditsAs himself, Steven "Sully" Seagull.
- SoundtracksEl Lado Más Bestia de la Vida (Walk On The Wild Side)
Written by Lou Reed
Performed by Albert Pla
Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment España, S.L.
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Nancy and Carlos are driving to the beach.
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Open Jaws
Blake Lively plays Nancy, a medical student taking time off from her studies and plans to go to a secluded beach in Mexico with a pal for some surfing. Let down by her friend she heads alone hoping for a period of self reflection as this was the beach her now deceased mother once visited when she was young.
While she is surfing alone she is attacked by a large shark. Injured, bleeding she is stranded on a rock. She looks for help but no one is about, her medical skills are used to patch herself up the best she can and she realises that she is only safe on the rock as it is low tide. As the tide rises, she needs to get to safety, but the shark is circling round. Nancy needs to somehow outwit the shark.
This is really a low budget B movie. The CGI is ordinary and the story is preposterous. Nancy is in a remote location but she gets excellent wifi and a mobile phone signal.
The shark is of course demented, hell bent in gobbling up Nancy when their are other food sources about (maybe he saw her performance in Savages!)
While she is surfing alone she is attacked by a large shark. Injured, bleeding she is stranded on a rock. She looks for help but no one is about, her medical skills are used to patch herself up the best she can and she realises that she is only safe on the rock as it is low tide. As the tide rises, she needs to get to safety, but the shark is circling round. Nancy needs to somehow outwit the shark.
This is really a low budget B movie. The CGI is ordinary and the story is preposterous. Nancy is in a remote location but she gets excellent wifi and a mobile phone signal.
The shark is of course demented, hell bent in gobbling up Nancy when their are other food sources about (maybe he saw her performance in Savages!)
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- Also known as
- Vùng Nước Tử Thần
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- Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $55,124,043
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $16,800,868
- Jun 26, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $119,100,758
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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