A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Practical Effects
They ACTUALLY shot 70 hours underwater. Ed Harris almost died.
Direction
Cameron's obsessive perfectionism creates genuine terror
Visual Effects
The pseudopod still melts brains 35 years later
Director
James Cameron
Ed Harris
Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Lindsey Brigman
Michael Biehn
Lieutenant Hiram Coffey
Leo Burmester
Catton ‘Catfish’ De Vries
Todd Graff
Alan 'Hippy' Carnes
John Bedford Lloyd
Jammer Willis
Kimberly Scott
Lisa 'One Night' Standing
Chris Elliott
Bendix
J.C. Quinn
Arliss 'Sonny' Dawson
Adam Nelson
Ensign Monk
Dick Warlock
Dwight Perry
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ed Harris broke down sobbing in his car after filming the drowning scene; the crew thought he was acting. Cameron kept rolling.
The liquid breathing rat was real—Cameron used actual perfluorocarbon. PETA tried to sue. The rat lived and had babies.
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