Rent Deep Blue Sea (1999)
3.1 of 5 from 126 ratings
1h 41min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
At an isolated research facility in the middle of the ocean, a team of scientists, led by Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows), are working on a cure for Alzheimer's by genetically altering the brains of sharks. When a shark escapes and attacks a pleasure boat, the company sponsoring the research threatens to pull its funding and sends corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) to investigate. McAlester has just 48 hours to prove the value of her work, but her experiments have made the sharks smarter. No longer happy to be injected, prodded, and caged, they begin to turn the tables. As a freak storm causes chaos on the surface, making it impossible to leave, the facility is flooded and the scientists must fight to survive against the rising water and the hungry sharks that now swim freely through the corridors. - Actors:
- Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgård, LL Cool J, Aida Turturro, Cristos, Daniel Rey, Valente Rodriguez, Brent Roam, Eyal Podell, Erinn Bartlett, Dan Thiel, Sabrina Geerinckx, Tajsha Thomas, Ronny Cox, Renny Harlin, Sarah Kelly
- Directors:
- Renny Harlin
- Producers:
- Akiva Goldsman, Tony Ludwig, Don MacBain, Alan Riche
- Voiced By:
- Frank Welker, Mary Kay Bergman
- Writers:
- Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers, Wayne Powers
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1999, Top 10 World Cinema Remakes, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/08/2010
- Run Time:
- 105 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Bulgarian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Hebrew, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Director Renny Harlin and Samuel L. Jackson
- Featurettes: ' When Sharks Attack' and 'The Sharks of Deep Blue Sea'
- Deleted Scenes with Optional Director Commentary
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/03/2025
- Run Time:
- 105 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by screenwriter Duncan Kennedy
- Brand new audio commentary by filmmaker and critic Rebekah McKendry
- Archive audio commentary by director Renny Harlin and star Samuel L. Jackson
- From the Frying Pan…into the Studio Tank, a new interview with production designer William Sandell
- Beneath the Surface, a new visual essay by film critic Trace Thurman
- When Sharks Attack: The Making of Deep Blue Sea, an archive featurette
- The Sharks of the Deep Blue Sea, an archive featurette
- Deleted scenes with optional audio commentary by director Renny Harlin
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
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Reviews (1) of Deep Blue Sea
Shark/Horror Film - Great Fun - Deep Blue Sea review by GI
Fantastically entertaining creature feature and disaster film with plenty of horror tropes thrown in for good measure. This is one of those films made simply to sit back and enjoy for the sheer fun of it all and who doesn't love a good shark film? Action director Renny Harlin throws all his usual flair into this, it's all brilliantly done, tense, exciting and wonderfully gory at times. A deep sea laboratory led by scientist Susan (Saffron Burrows) is trying to find a cure for Alzheimers disease from a fluid found in the brains of sharks. With her team she has genetically engineered three sharks to produce sufficient quantities of the precious fluid but a side effect is the sharks have grown larger and more intelligent. When a storm hits the lab everything goes awry. The cast are all having great fun including Thomas Jane as the 'shark wrangler', Stellan Skarsgård, LL Cool J and Samuel L. Jackson. There's some superb surprises to be had along the way. The obvious influences of Alien (1979) and The Abyss (1989) are there for all to see. A film you don't have to think beyond what you see it's just for a great time.
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