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The Abyss

Show Type: Movie
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

    Show description

    After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in some 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 begins to see evidence of a strange, possibly alien intelligence at work. Their 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.

    Show Details

    Cast Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff
    Director James Cameron
    Writer James Cameron
    Produced By Gale Anne Hurd, Van Ling
    Music By Alan Silvestri
    Release Date 9 August 1989 (USA)
    IMDB Rating 7.5/10
    Nominated For Oscar for Best Cinematography: Mikael Salomon, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration: Leslie Dilley, Anne Kuljian
    Trivia Most of the underwater filming took place in a half-completed nuclear reactor facility in Gaffney, South Carolina, including the largest underwater set in the world at 7 million gallons.

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