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The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, and inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel. Filming took place on location in Ontario, Canada, from August to November 2016.
- Director
- Guillermo del Toro
- Writer
- Vanessa Taylor · Guillermo del Toro
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- Release date
- 31 August 2017 · Released
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Country of origin
- United States, Mexico
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
- Genres
- Drama · Fantasy · Thriller · Romance · Melodrama · Magic Realist
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Shape of Water – Das Flüstern des Wassers
- Español
- La forma del agua
- Français
- La Forme de l'eau
- Italiano
- La forma dell'acqua - The Shape of Water
- 日本語
- ザ・シェイプ・オブ・ウォーター
- 한국어
- 셰이프 오브 워터: 사랑의 모양
- Polski
- Kształt wody
- Português
- A Forma da Água
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