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Jaws 3-D (also known as Jaws 3) is a 1983 horror thriller film directed by Joe Alves and starring Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Lea Thompson and Louis Gossett, Jr. It is the second sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
As SeaWorld, a water park with underwater tunnels and lagoons, prepares for opening, a young great white shark infiltrates the park from the sea, seemingly attacking and killing water skiers and park employees. Once the baby shark is captured, it becomes apparent that it was the mother, a much larger shark who also entered the park, who was the real killer.
The film is notable for making use of 3-D film during the revived interest in the technology in the 1980s, amongst other horror films such as Friday the 13th Part III and Amityville 3-D. Cinema audiences could wear disposable cardboard polarized 3D glasses to create the illusion that elements penetrate the screen. Several shots and sequences were designed to utilise the effect, such as the shark's destruction. Since 3-D was ineffective in home viewing until the advent of 3D televisions in the late 2000s, the alternative title Jaws III is used for television broadcasts, VHS and DVD.
Michael Brody and Sean Brody, the sons of former Amity police chief Martin Brody, work at Florida's Sea World, a seaside park run by Calvin Bouchard. Sean befriends Kelly Ann Bukowski, and Michael's girlfriend Kathryn Morgan is Sea World's head scientist who always works with Sea World's dolphins Cindy and Sandy. In its man-made lagoon, about 40 feet under the water, Sea World opens the Undersea Kingdom, a new set of underwater glass tunnels that have their own control room, and Calvin's friend Philip FitzRoyce is there to do some filming. When Sea World diver Shelby Overman vanishes, everyone is worried. Michael and Kathryn head into the water, where they find a baby great white shark and decide to bring it to Sea World to put it on display, but at Sea World, the baby shark dies. When Overman's body is found, Michael vomits when he sees it. Kathryn looks at the body and knows that the baby shark could not have been the shark that killed Overman, because the baby shark's bite radius is too small its 35-foot-long mother killed Overman. When Kathryn and Michael tell Calvin and Philip about the shark, they all try to evacuate the park, including the park's beach, as they try their best to protect Sea World's visitors from the shark.
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Kathryn Morgan: Overman was killed inside the park. The baby was caught inside the park. Its mother is inside the park.
Mike Brody: I don't believe it. She got him in the water.::Kathryn Morgan: Never underestimate the power, huh?
Charlene Tutt: He don't sleep in; he don't live in. You tell Shelby Overman for me he can take a flyin' leap in a rollin' doughnut on a gravel driveway, you hear?
Kathryn Morgan: Our shark couldn't have killed Overman. Its mother did.::Calvin Bouchard: You're talkin' about some damn shark's mother?
Kathryn Morgan: He needs eyes in the back of his head, Calvin.
Ted: [trying to start the boat] Damn boat. I flooded the damn boat.
Calvin Bouchard: No grenades.
Calvin Bouchard: Here come my pride and joy.
Calvin Bouchard: We are having dinner here.
Kathryn Morgan: What if she doesn't want to go back in?::Philip FitzRoyce: Oh, I think we can pretty much guarantee that she'll want to go back in. Don't you, Jack?::Jack Tate: Sure.::Mike Brody: Well, just how are you going to guarantee that?::Philip FitzRoyce: Live bait.