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Themes: Terror in the Water, When Animals Attack, Treasure Hunts
Director: Charles Robert Carner
Main Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Coolio, Jaimz Woolvett, Rob Boltin
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
A treacherous Louisiana river is the setting where divorced couple Sanders (Lou Diamond Philips) and Kelly (Kristy Swanson) forget their differences long enough to search for a new source of energy. The couple is joined -- and later waylaid -- by a pair of crooks named Ice (Coolio) and Jerry (Jaimz Woolvett), who are convinced that a cache of stolen loot rests somewhere at the bottom of the river. Before long, everyone is in danger of being sliced and diced by a rogue freshwater shark. Another of the several million Jaws derivations glutting the cable TV airwaves, Red Water at the very least boasts excellent animatronic special effects -- not to mention a dead-body count that would shame a Rambo or Terminator. The film debuted August 17, 2003, on TBS. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Review
Well, here's a shark flick that's somethin' -- it really doesn't go out of its way to rip off Jaws? Does that make it any better? No, not really. It's still a piece of junk, but in the proverbial sea of shark rip-offs, you need to respect one that plays it a little differently. Sadly, as with most low-budget animals-that-attack movies, there's far too much going on in the plot for one story to take on. With side plots here, there, and everywhere guiding the action away from the juicy shark attacks, this sucker begins to take on water and sink real fast. The animatronic shark is actually pretty good, especially for a TV movie. Beware, however, of the maddening gaps where there used be commercial breaks when you view it on DVD -- its episodic cliffhanger fades get old really fast. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
Langley Kirkwood - Brett; Dennis Haskins - Capt. Dale Landry; Gideon Emery - Gene; Charles Dumas - Hank; Clive Scott - Grandpa; Nicholas Andrews - Andre; Hilton Myburgh - Vidrine; Garth Collins - Lacombe; Tumisho K. Masha - Rick; Shirley Davidson - Tricia; Danielle Bitton - Rashaune; Lisa Larson - Eco Tour Guide; Steven Pillemer - Backpacker; Jeremy Crutchley - Shark Expert; Ronald France - Old Cajun; Nathalie Boltt - Marie Savoy; Miguel Borges - Sebastian Broussard; Mariana Tolken - Yvette; Andre Bierling - Rick's Bodyguard; Wendy Sarria - Rick's Girl; Ally Atack - Rick's Girl; Claire Ford - Rick's Girl; Monique Smit - Rick's Girl; Nadia Manjate - Rick's Girl
Credit
Charles Robert Carner - Director; Charles Robert Carner - Executive Producer; Louis Febre - Composer (Music Score); Michael K. Goi - Cinematographer; Mitch Engel - Producer; Johnny Breedt - Production Designer; Dominic Messinger - Composer (Music Score); Marc Leif - Editor; J.D. Fegelson - Teleplay By; J.D. Fegelson - Screenwriter; Chris Mack - Teleplay By; Michael G. Larkin - Executive Producer; Mark Aurett - Art Director; Jayne Forbes - Costume Designer; Roly Jansen - Special Effects Supervisor; Grant Hulley - Stunts Coordinator
Red Water aired on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in
August of 2003 and became one of the highest-rated movies in the station's history. The film
starred Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy
Swanson and Coolio. Directed by Charles Robert Carner and
produced by Michael G. Larkin and Mitch Engel, the film tells the
story of a bull shark which wreaks havoc as it makes its way up a river in Louisiana.
Shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa, the
production built three different sharks to depict the single bull shark in the movie. One of those became the first free-swimming
animatronic shark ever used in a motion picture.
In an homage, the film uses the same Louisiana license plate Hooper pulls from a shark's
mouth in Jaws (1975).
Plot
Lou Diamond Phillips (Wolf Lake), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Coolio (Batman & Robin) are in dangerous
waters when they star in the upcoming original movie Red Water.
In Red Water, Phillips and Swanson play a divorced couple who find themselves working together as they search for a natural
gas source in a Louisiana river. Their plans are derailed, however, when their boat is hijacked by a pair of criminals (Coolio
and Unforgiven's Jaimz Woolvett) searching for stolen money dropped in the river. Making recovery of the money even more
difficult is the arrival of a carnivorous shark bent on attacking anything that enters the water. In the end the criminals are
killed by the shark and the money is left floating all over the water and the couple and their friend kill the shark by driving
the drill of the nearby drilling platform into its mouth.
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