The Shape of Water

Based on an idea by Daniel Kraus And Guillermo del Toro.

This film is set against the backdrop of Cold War era America around 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, a young woman is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Her life is changed forever when she and her co-worker discover a secret classified experiment. At the time of writing the film has 7 Golden Globe nominations and has won another 53 awards.

123 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence).
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller, On the art circuit

Will you look at that!

Credits

Cast	Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones, David Hewlett
Director	Guillermo del Toro
Screenplay	Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
Music	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Dan Laustsen
Editing	Sidney Wolinsky
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2017
Produced by	Bull Productions, Double Dare You, Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Fantasy drama
Language	Strong, fairly frequent
Nudity	Mild, infrequent
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, fairly frequent
Prejudice	Low impact, very infrequent
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

R: Restricted	Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language
Runtime	123
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Jamal-Dean Grootboom The power of love to shape us.	20
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Magiese prent sleur jou mee.	20
24.com Alex Isaacs Guillermo del Toro has made a film classic that will stand the test of time.	20
ScreenIt Jim Judy The Shape of Water is the shape of visual storytelling at some of its finest.	15
Metacritic.com 50 critics	17
Rottentomatoes critics 240 critics	17
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Shape of Water finds Guillermo del Toro at his visually distinctive best -- and matched by an emotionally absorbing story brought to life by a stellar Sally Hawkins performance.	19
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	16
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Compassionate monster movie/love story has mature content.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 143 users	13
Rottentomatoes users 12563 users	15
IMDB 12090 Netizens	16
The Movie DB Community	14
Average .. 83%	17