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The Shape of Water

Release Date - Dec 1, 2017  |   Run Time - 123 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - R

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The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel. Filming took place on location in Ontario, Canada, from August to November 2016.

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1960s, Amphibious Creature, Bathtub, Cold War, Elisa, Fairy Tale, Government, Independent, Laboratory, Lgbtq, Masturbation, Mind-Bending/Experimental, Myths/Legends/Magic, Orphan, Russian, Scientist, Sign Language, Tale

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Filming Location: Hamilton
Narrative Location: Baltimore
Subject: monster movies

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Alternate Titles

La forma del agua

AR, CL, CO, EC, MX, PY, PE, ES, UY, VE

La forma dell'acqua - The shape of water

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Người Đẹp và Thủy Quái

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Shape of Water - Das Flüstern des Wassers

AT, DE

The Shape of Water

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