- Red Water
Infobox film
name = Red Water
writer =J.D. Feigelson
starring =Lou Diamond Phillips Rob Boltin Kristy Swanson Coolio Langley Kirkwood Gideon Emery
director =Charles Robert Carner
producer =Michael G. Larkin Mitch Engel
music =Dominic Messenger
distributor =Sony Pictures Television
released =2003
language = English
imdb_id = 0365677"Red Water" aired on the
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) in August of2003 and became one of the highest-rated movies in the station's history. The film starredLou Diamond Phillips ,Kristy Swanson andCoolio . Directed byCharles Robert Carner and produced byMichael G. Larkin andMitch Engel , the film tells the story of abull shark which wreaks havoc as it makes its way up a river in Louisiana.The production built three different sharks to depict the single bull shark in the movie. One of those became the first free-swimming animatronic shark ever used in a motion picture.
In an homage, the film uses the same
Louisiana license plate Hooper pulls from a shark's stomach in "Jaws" (1975).
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