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The Shape of Water

Mar 10, 2022

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Rating: ★★★★
Year: 2017
Language: English

About this film

Guillermo del Toro directs and produces this 2017 film, co-written with Vanessa Taylor and inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon. Set in Baltimore in 1962 during the Cold War, it follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captive amphibious creature and sets out to help him escape before a government colonel can kill him. Sally Hawkins and Michael Shannon star. It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion.

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