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The Abyss <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>
The Abyss (1989) was director James Cameron's third action movie in a row. His track record boasted two hits: The Terminator (1984), and Aliens (1986), For all three movies, Cameron also received a writing credit, solo credit in the case of The Abyss. This underwater extravaganza featured Ed Harris as Virgil "Bud" Brigman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Lindsey Brigman, and Michael Biehn as Lt. Coffey.
Spoiler Warning: Plot details and/or information about the ending follow. If you wish to enjoy the work first, stop reading here and return at another time.
PlotDuring the Cold War, a missile-bearing American submarine, the USS Montana, hits a spot of trouble and bottoms out near the Cayman Trough. Help is sent in the form of a team of Navy SEALs, led by Lt. Coffey. They form up at an underwater drilling platform designed by Lindsey Brigman. Her estranged husband, Bud, is the foreman on the rig. The weather gets rough, Russians start snooping around, and the underwater work takes its toll on the personnel. Coffey falls prey to pressure sickness and the paranoid behavior it induces. He and the Brigmans battle for control of the submarine's nuclear warhead, resulting in Coffey's death. But strange things happen below. And the strangest thing of all is that at the bottom of the trench, extra-terrestrials have built an underwater city. Bud and Lindsey lack enough air to dive to the bottom of the three-mile-deep trench and disarm the warhead, even though Bud uses an experimental system to fill his lungs with oxygenated water. Before his almost-certain death, Bud lets Lindsey know he still loves her. The Abyss received four Academy Award nominations in 1990, winning for Best Visual Effects. Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card wrote the novelization, which provided meatier backgrounds on the characters while staying true to the screenplay's plot and dialogue.
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