There's everything you've ever known about adventure, and then there's The Abyss.
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Screenplay
James Cameron
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Release date
August 9, 1989
Country
United States of America
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Top billed cast
Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff
Production companies
Lightstorm Entertainment, Pacific Western, 20th Century Fox
Keywords
ocean, submarine, sea, diving suit, flying saucer, secret mission, nuclear missile, u.s. navy, alien life-form, warning, insanity, ufo, scuba diving, underwater, scuba, extraterrestrial life form, deepsea, message, trapped underwater , thalassophobia
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