The ballistic missile submarine USS Montana sinks under mysterious circumstances. The doomed boat settles on a ledge several hundred feet deep and on the edge of an even deeper ocean abyss. US Navy SEALS are brought in to salvage the sub’s missiles and an experimental civilian deep water oil-drilling rig is commandeered to help. All goes well until the SEAL leader suffers from high pressure madness and the rig is visited by the “Non-Terrestrial Intelligence” that apparently lives in the abyss. The ensuing struggle results in a race against time to prevent World War III and a reunion between the estranged couple that designed and operate the oil rig.

The Abyss (1989)
  • Rating: (70,703 votes)
  • Taglines:There's everything you've ever known about adventure, and then there's The Abyss. » A place on earth more awesome than anywhere in space. »
  • Runtime:138 minutes
  • Director: James Cameron
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Virgil 'Bud' Brigman
    Ed Harris
    Lindsey Brigman
    Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    Lt. Hiram Coffey
    Michael Biehn
    Catfish De Vries
    Leo Burmester
    Alan 'Hippy' Carnes
    Todd Graff
    Jammer Willis
    John Bedford Lloyd
    'Sonny' Dawson
    J.C. Quinn
    Lisa 'One Night' Standing
    Kimberly Scott
    Lew Finler (as Capt. Kidd Brewer Jr.)
    Captain Kidd Brewer Jr.
    Wilhite
    George Robert Klek
  • Genres:Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Gale Anne Hurd
    producer  
    Van Ling
    producer (special edition)  
  • Plots: An American nuclear submarine encounters an alien species, which coincidentally causes massive electrical and hydraulic malfunctions, causing the sub to crash into an underwater cliff and sink. The navy asks the workers of a nearby underwater oil rig who are joined by a number of navy SEALS to locate and investigate the cause of the crash. As the crew embark on their mission, they encounter a number of difficulties and discover that they may not be alone. There is something else down there. Written by Anonymous
The Abyss
  • User's comment:Wow that was a fantastic movie! by Leon (Stitchthingy)

    I like short reviews so I will try to keep this short!

    Let me begin to tell you this movie is original! Not to many movies are being made that have an underwater setting.

    The movie is about a drilling team who operate a high tech underwater drilling station deep under the sea. As soon as they become cut off from the surface in a storm near an underwater crevice things are getting a weird.

    Strange in a way that the movie slowly shows that something scary and silent is there with them on the ocean floor. It builds suspension gradually until it ends within a climatic ending of the movie which I really liked (but some people have other opinions about that!)

    Acting is great and the story very original with just enough action!

    **** out of five!


  • Quotes: Virgil: When it comes to the safety of these people, there's me and then there's God, understand? Virgil: Goddammit, you bitch! You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight! Virgil: Fight!
  • Also known as: Abyss (France), Abyss (Spain), Abyss (Turkey - Turkish title), El abismo (Argentina), El abismo (Venezuela), A mélység titka (Hungary), Abisu (Japan - imdb display title), Abyss - Abgrund des Todes (West Germany), Abyss - Syvyys (Finland), Afgrond (Netherlands - informal literal title), Ambis (Serbia - imdb display title), Avgrunden (Sweden), Dybet (Denmark - video title), El Secreto del Abismo (Uruguay), El secreto del abismo (Mexico), Glebia (Poland - informal title), I avyssos (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Isigin bittigi yer (Turkey - informal alternative title, Turkish title), L'abysse (Canada - French title), O Abismo (Portugal), O Segredo do Abismo (Brazil), Otchlan (Poland), Propast (Czechoslovakia), The Abyss (Italy),

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