Name: The Shape of Water - DVD
SKU: 6201434
Rating: 4.6 (1409 reviews)

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- Genre: Drama
- Description: Mute since birth, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) works as a janitor at a secret government lab in the early 1960s. When she discovers an amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being held there, she forms an unexpected bond with the creature. Learning that her new friend is to be dissected, Elisa hatches a plan for him escape, keeping him in her bathtub until he can be released in a nearby canal. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro's fantasy also stars Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer. 123 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish, French; featurette; theatrical trailers.
- Title: The Shape of Water
- Format: DVD
- MPAA Rating: R (Motion Picture Association of America's (MPAA) film-rating system is used in the United States and its territories to rate a film's suitability for certain audiences.)
- Studio: 20th Century Studios
- Release Date: 03/13/2018
- Genre: Drama
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- Product Name: The Shape of Water - DVD
- UPC: 024543417675

Mute since birth, Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) works as a janitor at a secret government lab in the early 1960s. When she discovers an amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being held there, she forms an unexpected bond with the creature. Learning that her new friend is to be dissected, Elisa hatches a plan for him escape, keeping him in her bathtub until he can be released in a nearby canal. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro's fantasy also stars Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer. 123 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish, French; featurette; theatrical trailers.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
A Sci-Fi love story in Baltimore 1962
An alien creature has been caught by the government and being mistreated. The Russians are trying to steal the information. A blue collar worker falls in love with the creature and is able to communicate with it. Excellent movie premise with an excellent storyline and excellent actors and actresses. A five star production.
This review is from The Shape of Water - BLU-RAY
Posted 6 years ago by MovieWatcher
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Such A Weird Movie
I have to say, I wasn't too sure what to expect going into this movie. I ended up loving it, its so weird and quirky. It's beautifully put together and will keep you entranced throughout the whole movie. Definitely recommend buying.
This review is from The Shape of Water - 4K Blu-Ray [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]
Posted 6 years ago by PurpleNarwhal
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Another Del Toro fantasy masterpiece.
Guillermo del Toro is today’s master of fantasy, having been a childhood lover of monsters growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, before making some of the finest films of recent years -- from the ghostly horror of “The Devil’s Backbone” in 2001 to his gothic horror/romance, “Crimson Peak” in 2015. Indubitably, however, his greatest film is “Pan’s Labyrinth”, the 2006 film many of us consider the finest fantasy film ever made. Now he’s broken new ground with “The Shape of Water”, one of the year’s most beautiful films. Set in Baltimore in the year 1962 at the height of the Cold War, the plot follows a mute janitor at a secret government laboratory who forms a bond with a captured amphibian of the “Creature of the Black Lagoon” variety. Her name is Elisa, and Sally Hawkins plays her with an artistry that seems to reach back to the silent days of Chaplin and Keaton. Michael Shannon, with devoted viciousness, plays the right-wing Colonel Strickland, someone more interested in dissecting the creature for exploitation purposes than he is concerned over the space race with the Soviets. Del Toro saw “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” on TV at 7 years old and it changed his life. Wishing a different ending for it in which the Gill Man and co-star Julie Adams would consummate their romance and live ‘happily ever after’, he wrote various scripts of a remake through the years that Universal studio executives wound up rejecting. “The Shape of Water” is the result of del Toro’s dream, and now today, with more permissive filmmaking allowable, he’s able to deal with the previously verboten issue between fish and human. The resulting film is a worthy accomplishment not only for its production design (embodying various shades of green) and its special effects, but also for attaining the level of a genuine adult fairy tale that deals with issues of trust, tolerance, and love in the human condition -- but most of all what it’s like to be an outsider (whether a lonely mute woman, gay man, overweight black woman, or an amphibious sea creature). “This is a healing movie for me,” del Toro states; one likes to think it would be for viewers as well.
This review is from The Shape of Water - BLU-RAY
Posted 6 years ago by RBlenheim