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The Abyss is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by James Cameron released in USA on 9 august 1989 with Ed Harris

The Abyss (1989)

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The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Russian vessels to recover the ship. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected.

Synopsis

In 1988 a US ballistic missile submarine, the USS Montana, sinks near the edge of the Cayman Trough after an accidental encounter with an unidentified submerged object. As Soviet ships and submarines head toward the area in an attempt to salvage the sub, and with a hurricane moving in, the Americans decide that the quickest way to mount a rescue is to insert a SEAL team onto the Deep Core, a privately owned, experimental underwater oil drilling platform, located 1,700 feet (518 meters) below sea level, which will serve as their base of operations. The designer of the platform, Dr. Lindsey Brigman, insists on accompanying the SEAL team, even though her estranged husband, Virgil "Bud" Brigman, is currently serving as the platform's foreman.

Actors

Ed Harris

(Virgil 'Bud' Brigman)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

(Lindsey Brigman)
Michael Biehn

(Lieutenant Hiram Coffey)
J. C. Quinn

(Arliss 'Sonny' Dawson)
Leo Burmester

(Catton ‘Catfish’ De Vries)
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Œuvres de Jean Giraud / Mœbius

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