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Red Water (2003)

Red Water poster
Directed by
Charles Robert Carner
Genre
action film, horror film, adventure film, science fiction film, television film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
18
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 59 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A fishing captain gets caught between a gang looking for hidden money and a large bull shark that is eating people in a bayou. He has to protect his ex-wife and survive the shark attacks.

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What happens

Red Water is a 2003 American made-for-television horror film starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Gideon Emery and Coolio. When former oil rig worker turned fishing captain John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) agrees to help when his ex-wife's company in extracting oil upriver and a group of thugs working for a Jamaican gangster search for $3 million buried underwater in the same bayou, a large man-eating bull shark finds its way in the river and wreaks havoc. The film was produced by New Line Television and Sony Pictures Television and originally premiered on TBS Superstation on August 17, 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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