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Movie
language
English
duration
146 min
genre
science fiction
theme
submarine
director
James Cameron
Score
8 / 10

The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Soviet vessels to recover the boat. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected.

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In January 1994, the U.S. USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object and sinks near the Cayman Trough. With Soviet ships moving in to try to salvage the sub and a hurricane moving over the area, the U.S. government sends a SEAL team to Deep Core, a privately owned experimental underwater drilling platform near the Cayman Trough, to use it as a base of operations. The platform's designer, Dr. Lindsey Brigman, insists on going along with the SEAL team, even though her estranged husband Virgil "Bud" Brigman is the current foreman.

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    award Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
    contentLocation Atlantic Ocean
    director James Cameron
    editor Conrad Buff IV Howard E. Smith Joel Goodman
    events flying saucer
    genre action adventure science fiction thriller
    keywords alien ship animate breathe cayman trough cpr dead from the sudden decompression decompression sickness defibrillation defibrillator diving suit drill drilling platform end estrange extended version flood high-pressure nervous syndrome hurricane kill liquid breathing megatsunami moving in remotely operated underwater vehicle remotely operated vehicle rescue seal soviet union submerge suffer trident trident missile tropical cyclone understand unidentified submerged object united states navy seals wait walk
    musicBy Alan Silvestri
    nomination Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
    producer Gale Anne Hurd
    productionCompany 20th Century Fox AFI Catalog of Feature Films
    publisher 20th Century Fox
    recordedAt California North Carolina South Carolina
    theme science fiction adventure science fiction thriller submarine the future