Spring Break Shark Attack (TV Movie 2005)

Spring Break Shark Attack is a 2005 joint South AfricanAmerican madeforTV thriller film written by James LaRosa and directed by Paul Shapiro, and stars Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, and Justin Baldoni, with Kathy Baker and Bryan Brown. After television release in the United States, the film had limited nonUS theatrical release before going to DVD.

Danielle Shannon Lucio is a teenaged girl who, against her fathers wishes, heads to Florida for spring break. Rather than truth, she tells her parents she going to spend the time working with Habitat For Humanity, but she instead meets up with two girlfriends who had rented a beach house at Seagull Beach, Florida for a week, fully intent on having a good time. As she explores the beach area, she meets the creepy J.T. Justin Baldoni who only sees her as a spring break sexual conquest. She also meets local charter boat owner Shane Jones Riley Smith, and decided she likes him. J.T. is willing to do anything to achieve his goal of sex with Danielle, and so charters the boat that Shane and his mother Kathy Baker had been booking out to tourists. When everyone is out at sea they learn that the waters are becoming infested with an increasing number of hungry tiger sharks. Danielles marine biologist brother, Charlie Wayne Thornley just happens to also be doing research on an artificial reef in the same location, and must determine how best to save his sister and warn others.Washington Post offered that Spring Break Shark Attack was a true dream title for something viewers might expect to watch on late night Cinemax or on USA Network in prime time, or find in a list of directtovideo losers. They also offered that even with the ridiculous title, the films scary parts really are scary, enough so that little kids should be sent to their rooms. Visual effects were approved, in that when a partly chewed victim washes up on the beach, it actually looked like a partially eaten shark victim, rather than something sanitized for television. They felt the film works on its own frankly silly, fitfully gripping level if one has two hours to kill and a harmless lust for artificial blood. ........

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