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Anyone have a clue about a certain shark movie I'm looking for?

posted 17 years ago by qabala
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There was a movie I saw in the eighties on cable. I have no idea what it's called, but this one is close, but not quite.

The story was about an island boy who is the first to touch a baby shark after its' mom is killed. That first touch is an imprint that bonds the shark to the boy who also has a crush on an island girl who ends up leaving.

The story continues years later as the boy is now a man, and the shark is now full sized (I think it was a tiger shark). It is also at this time that the girl returns to the island and we see her dancing in a grass skirt.

I don't remember the rest of the story, but it involved the shark and some great shots underwater of the guy interacting with it.

Anyone?

[–] qabala 17 years ago

Never mind.

The movie I'm looking for is called "Beyond the Reef" AKA "Sea Killer" AKA "The Shark Boy of Bora Bora".

It's a remake of the movie "Tiko and the Shark" based on the book.

[–] rogerc210 17 years ago

The one where the shark's buddy gets caught in a net, & the shark saves him from drowning? In the original, I think they may have used alternate species to represent the same specimen throughout the feature. I think the grown shark was a tiger shark, who in real life may have been willing to save Tiko...for DINNER! lol. Movies & TV shows do this a lot-use sharks of different species to replicate the same individual. A shark in Great Barrier Reef, alternated b/n being a blue shark & a tiger shark throughout the feature. Of course the "tiger" shark in Deep Blue Sea had a mako shark's body, but was painted to have a tiger shark's markings. Flipper had a whitetip reef shark that Porter Ricks refered to as a mako.

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