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Into The Blue

Director: John Stockwell

Actors: Jessica Alba, Scott Caan

Release Date: Monday 30th November -0001

The producers know exactly who their demographic is: young boys aged twelve to seventeen, and the poster of Alba's sun-kissed glistening body as it ripples across every bus-stop poster says it all. Since Alba is the star, they don't need to worry about plot, character development or ... anything, really. What the producers needed was a director who isn't afraid of getting beautiful bodies up on the screen and doesn't let something like good acting get in the way of a toned stomach. Enter John Stockwell (CrazyBeautiful, Blue Crush) - he's the man for the job. The story, of sorts, takes place in the Caribbean, where Jared (Walker) and Sam (Alba) eke out a living as a tour boat operator and an aquarium instructor respectively. When they take their two friends (Caan and Scott) on a diving trip, they discover the remains of a sunken ship that could be the legendary Zephyr. During the same dive they find a sunken plane full of cocaine and the party can't decide if they will dig for treasure or sell the nose candy - but before they can make up their minds the real drug dealers appear on the scene and demand their coke. Cliches abound: Into the Blue will sink without trace, this movie is all wet, go back to Seaworld, etc, etc, etc.