The Beast (1996 film)
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| The Beast | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jeff Bleckner |
| Produced by | David Brown Richard D. Zanuck |
| Written by | Novel: Peter Benchley Teleplay: J.B. White |
| Starring | William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith, Ronald Guttman |
| Release date(s) | April 28, 1996 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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The Beast is a 1996 made for TV movie starring William Petersen, Charles Martin Smith and Larry Drake. The movie is based on the 1991 novel by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is about a giant squid. Her objective is to kill the people that killed her baby. "The beast" is eventually blown up.
[edit] Trivia
- At one point in the movie, the beast swims right by a buoy silhouetted by moonlight -- a clear reference to the opening scene in Jaws, another film based on a book by Peter Benchley.
- Port Angeles, the town that Howard & Elizabeth Griffin ('Chad Tyler’ & 'Angie Milliken’ ) called from the "Occupational Hazard" is on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, across the Juan de Fuca Strait from Victoria, the capital of British Columbia. A major fault line runs along the middle of the strait, with the result that the two cities are on different tectonic plates.
