FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Jaws
Scores
- IMDb8.1/10as of 2026-06-06
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer97%as of 2024-08-02
- Rotten Tomatoes average9.3/10as of 2024-07-02
- Metacritic87/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a New England resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the town's mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife.
At a glance
- Genres
- Thriller / Horror / Adventure / Science fiction
- Original language
- English
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