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Open Water is a 2003 American survivalhorrorthriller film. The story concerns an American couple who go scuba diving while on vacation, only to find themselves stranded miles from shore in shark-infested waters when the crew of their boat accidentally leaves them behind.

The film is loosely based on the true story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who in 1998 went out with a scuba diving group, Outer Edge Dive Company, on the Great Barrier Reef, and were accidentally left behind because the dive-boat crew failed to take an accurate headcount.^[1][2]

The film was financed by the husband and wife team of writer/director Chris Kentis and producer Laura Lau, both avid scuba divers.^[3] It cost $120,000 to make and was bought by Lions Gate Entertainment for $2.5 million after its screening at the Sundance Film Festival. Lions Gate spent a further $8 million on distribution and marketing.^[4] The film ultimately grossed $55.5 million worldwide (including $30 million from the North American box office alone).^[5]

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Before filming began, the Lonergans' experience was re-created for an episode of ABC's 20/20, and the segment was repeated after the release of Open Water. Clips from the film were also featured on NBC in 'Troubled Waters', a Dateline episode (July 7, 2008) with Matt Lauer interviewing two professional divers, Richard Neely and Ally Dalton, who were left adrift at the Great Barrier Reef by a dive boat on May 21, 2008.^[6]

Plot[edit]

Daniel Kintner and Susan Watkins are frustrated that their hard-working lives do not allow them to spend much time together. They decide to go on a scuba-diving vacation to help improve their relationship. On their second day, they join a group scuba dive. A head count is taken and the passenger total is recorded as 20. Daniel and Susan decide to separate briefly from the group while underwater. Half an hour later, the group returns to the boat; two members of the group are inadvertently counted twice, so the dive master thinks that everyone is back on board and the boat leaves the site. However, Daniel and Susan are still underwater, unaware that the others have returned. When they resurface, the boat has gone. They believe that the group will soon return to recover them.

Stranded at sea, it slowly dawns on Daniel and Susan that their boat is not coming back for them. They bicker, battle bouts of hunger and mental exhaustion and realize that they have probably drifted far from the dive site. They also realize that sharks have been circling them below the surface. Soon, jellyfish appear, stinging them both, while sharks come in close. Susan receives a small shark bite on the leg, but does not immediately realize it, Daniel goes under and discovers a small fish feeding on the exposed flesh of her bite wound. Later, a shark bites Daniel and the wound begins to bleed profusely. Susan removes her weight belt and uses it to apply pressure to Daniel's wound, but he appears to go into shock. After night falls, sharks return and attack Daniel during a storm, killing him. The next morning, Daniel and Susan's belongings are finally noticed on the boat by a crew member and he realizes that they must have been left at the dive site. A search for the couple begins.

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Susan realizes that Daniel is dead and releases his into the water, where sharks pull him down in a feeding frenzy. After putting on her mask, she looks beneath the surface and sees several large sharks now circling her. Susan looks around one last time for any sign of coming rescue; seeing none, she removes her scuba gear and goes underwater to drown before the sharks can attack. Elsewhere, a fishing crew cut open a newly caught shark's stomach, finding a diving camera (apparently that of Daniel and Susan). One of the fishermen asks offhandedly to another, 'Wonder if it works?'

Cast[edit]

• Blanchard Ryan as Susan Watkins
• Daniel Travis as Daniel Kintner
• Saul Stein as Seth
• Michael E. Williamson as Davis
• Cristina Zenato as Linda
• John Charles as Junior
• Estelle Lau as Affected-Ear Diver

Production[edit]

The filmmakers used live sharks, as opposed to the mechanical ones used in Jaws decades ago or the computer-generated fish in Deep Blue Sea. The film strives for authentic shark behavior, shunning the stereotypical exaggerated shark behavior typical of many films. The movie was shot on digital video. As noted above, the real-life events that inspired this story took place in the southern Pacific Ocean, and this film moves the location to the Atlantic Ocean, being filmed in the Bahamas, the United States Virgin Islands, the Grenadines, and Mexico.^[7][8]

Reception[edit]

Open Water received mostly positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 71% based on 196 reviews with an average rating of 6.57/10. The consensus reads: 'A low budget thriller with some intense moments.'^[9] On Metacritic, the film holds a score of 63 out of 100, based on reviews from 38 critics' reviews, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'.^[10]

Most critics praised the film for its intensity and minimalist filmmaking, while it was not well received by the audience. Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert praised the film highly: 'Rarely, but sometimes, a movie can have an actual physical effect on you. It gets under your defenses and sidesteps the 'it's only a movie' reflex and creates a visceral feeling that might as well be real'.^[11] In a much less favorable review, A. O. Scott in The New York Times lamented that it 'succeeds in mobilizing the audience's dread, but it fails to make us care as much as we should about the fate of its heroes'.^[12]

Box office[edit]

Open Water was made for a budget recorded by Box Office Mojo as $120,000, grossed $1 million in 47 theaters on its opening weekend and made a lifetime gross of $55 million.^[13]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Sequels[edit]

In 2006, a film marketed as a sequel titled Open Water 2: Adrift was released in that year, although its plot is unrelated to Open Water.^{[citation needed]} A third film in the series titled, Open Water 3: Cage Dive was released in 2017, following the first film's plot of being a survival shark film, although unrelated in continuity.

See also[edit]

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• Survival film, about the film genre, with a list of related films

References[edit]

1. ^Brady, Tara (13 September 2004). 'Open Water'. hotpress.com. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
2. ^'Hollywood's 'Open Water' film earns rave reviews'. cdnn.info. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008.
3. ^Bonin, Liane (2004-08-07). 'Open Water: The new Jaws?'. EW. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
4. ^'Open Water - Box Office Data, Movie News, Cast Information'. The Numbers. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
5. ^'Open Water (2004)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
6. ^'Transcript of Troubled Waters'. NBC News. 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
7. ^'Open Water (2003)'. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
8. ^Sontag, Deborah (2004-08-01). 'A Couple Go For a Morning Dive...'The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
9. ^'Open Water'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
10. ^'Open Water'. Metacritic. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
11. ^Roger Ebert (2004-08-06). 'Open Water, Chicago Sun-Times, August 6, 2004'. Rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
12. ^Scott, A. O. (2004-08-06). 'Hanging With Sharks, at Their Dinner Hour'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
13. ^Open Water statistics at Boxofficemojo.com. Box Office Mojo
14. ^GTA6 Best Thriller'Archived 2017-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. Golden Trailer Awards. Retrieved 19 December 2016
15. ^'GTA6 Best Independent'Archived 2017-10-09 at the Wayback Machine. Golden Trailer Awards. Retrieved 19 December 2016

External links[edit]

• Open Water at AllMovie
• Open Water at Box Office Mojo
• Open Water at IMDb
• Open Water at Rotten Tomatoes

We can’t stand it any longer! We’ve been keeping the ending of Knives Out a secret for weeks, but now that Rian Johnson’s new movie is in theaters, it’s finally time to reveal the killer. Don’t worry, we won’t drag it out like Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), but before we explain the ending, we have to warn you that there are major Knives Out spoilers ahead.

So consider yourself warned, as soon as you scroll past this photo of the movie’s impressive cast, you’re in danger of ruining the ending for yourself, assuming you haven’t seen Knives Out already. Ready to find out who killed Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer)? Let’s dive in.

Ok, let’s get it out of the way. The killer in Knives Out is … Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans), the spoiled adult grandson of Harlan Thrombey. Of course, the real joy of any whodunnit isn’t in who did it but how they did it. So let’s talk specifics.

Knives Out spoilers: The motive

Ransom’s reason for killing his grandfather is pretty straightforward. After mooching for years, he learns at his pappy’s 85th birthday party that Harlan’s changed his will to give the family fortune to his nurse, Marta (Ana de Armas).

Of course, Ransom’s not the only character in Knives Out with a motive. Almost everyone in the Thrombey family is living off Harlan’s money, and at his birthday party, the family patriarch puts them all on notice. He fires his son (Michael Shannon), who’s been running the publishing business that prints Harlan’s successful series of mystery books. He also cuts off his daughter-in-law (Toni Collette) and threatens to expose his son-in-law (Don Johnson) for cheating on his daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis).

But, at the end of the day, the only member of the Thrombey family actually capable of murder is Ransom, though the way he goes about it is particularly devious…

Knives Out spoilers: The plot

Ransom doesn’t kill his grandfather outright. Instead, he decides to pin the blame on Marta, switching the labels on two bottles of medicine in her bag so she’ll inject Harlan with a lethal dose of morphine by mistake. He also swipes the antidote so there’s no way to undo the damage once it’s been done. He’s also aware of a law that killing someone invalidates you from inheriting their money, which means the fortune would revert back to the family.

Sounds foolproof right? Unfortunately for Ransom, things quickly go wrong.

First, Marta accidentally gives Harlan the right medicine (with the wrong label on it) after they both fall on the floor and get switched. After reading the label, she assumes she accidentally killed him and explains that he has minutes to live. Thinking quickly, Harlan uses his last moments of life to hatch an alibi for Marta and then cuts his own throat so the entire thing looks like a suicide.

Things hit a boiling point once the family learns that Harlan left everything to Marta. She ends up fleeing with Ransom, of all people, who pretends to help her while subtly pushing her towards confessing. (One moment where he emails Marta from an anonymous account and then casually asks if she’s checked her email is particularly blatant.)

Marta falls for it and confesses, but everything works out when Detective Blanc retrieves Harlan’s toxicology report and deduces that Ransom switched the labels. It’s a bittersweet ending, though, as Marta realizes that Harlan wasn’t actually poisoned and would have been just fine if she just called for an ambulance.

But, hey, at least Ransom gets arrested and Marta ends up with all the money. In a movie full of deplorable, rich white people, she’s the only one who deserves a happy ending.

Knives Out is in theaters now.