Midnights at The Baxter: Jaws (Friday July 4, 2008)

In honor of the holiday they're doing the midnight movie on Friday July 4 this week and it's a classic of course: Jaws. I really wish my Dad lived in town so I could take him to this on Friday night. He seriously loves Jaws. He's got the DVD but every single time it's on tv he. must. stop. and. watch it. I don't really need to give you the wikipedia description of Jaws do I? Well ok but only because you asked nicely.

"Jaws is a 1975 thriller/horror film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as marine biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife Ellen and Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn.

Jaws is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the father of the summer blockbuster movie and one of the first "high concept" films. Due to the film's success in advance screenings, studio executives decided to distribute it in a much wider release than ever before."

Jaws
Friday July 4, 2008
11:55PM

Baxter Avenue Theaters
1250 Bardstown Rd
Louisville, KY 40204