Rating: Overflowing

 

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones

 

Director: Guillermo del Toro

 

Writers: Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor

 

Producers: J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro

 

Music by: Alexandre Desplat

 

Oscar Nominations: 13 (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Sally Hawkins), Best Supporting Actor (Richard Jenkins), Best Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing)

 

Oscar Wins: 4 (Best Picture (J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro), Best Director (Guillermo del Toro), Best Original Score (Alexandre Desplat) and Best Production Design (Paul Denham Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau))

 

Rated: R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence language

 

Release Date: 12/22/17

 

Favorite Character: Zelda Fuller

 

Quote: “If we do nothing, neither are we.”- Elisa Esposito (in sign language)

 

Fun Facts: The creature design was inspired by the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

 

While filming the scene where Michael Shannon drives to confront Sally Hawkins’s character upon discovering she helped the creature escape, Shannon drove his car and stopped outside of theater, but he forgot to put the car in park. This resulted in the car rolling down the street and it collided with a decorative pole as well as a telephone pole, damaging the poles and Shannon’s vehicle. The production team decided that take was so well done that they kept it in the film.

 

Doug Jones spent three hours every day getting into the costume. According to him, it was nothing compared to previous costumes he has worn in other films by Guillermo del Toro.

 

Director Guillermo del Toro originally wanted to shoot the film in black and white, but ultimately decided against it due to budget restraints.

 

Summary: In the 1960’s, a mute woman working as a janitor in a top secret lab falls for an amphibious creature that’s been held in the tank.

 

The Review: The most beautiful film of 2017 that comes with brilliant performances, complex story and an emotional conclusion. A fairy tale for adults is defiantly Del Toro’s trademark!