Movie connections for
Open Water (2003) More at IMDbPro »

Followed by

Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)

References

Jaws (1975)
 -  Male lead's last name is "Kintner", like eaten boy in Jaws. Female lead's last name is "Watkins" like skinny-dipping girl who serves as the shark's first victim in Jaws.
Grace Quigley (1984)
 -  Daniel and Susan play a game of naming movies and actors to pass the time away, and Daniel refers to Katherine Hepburn and Nick Nolte as playing in Grace Quigley.
Mulholland Falls (1996)
 -  Daniel and Susan play a game of naming movies and actors to pass the time away, and Daniel refers to Nick Nolte and John Malkovich as playing in Mulholland Falls.

Referenced in

Caché (2005)
 -  movie billboard seen in the street
Controversial Confection: The Soul of 'Hard Candy' (2006) (V)
 -  mentioned once
Ralphie May: Girth of a Nation (2006) (TV)
 -  Ralphie May uses this as an example of how funny it is to see movies in black theaters.
"Gilmore Girls: Lorelai? Lorelai? (#7.20)" (2007)
 -  Lorelai lists it as a movie where bad things happen on a boat.
"Psych: Bounty Hunters! (#2.9)" (2007)
 -  Gus makes a crack that if Shawn had tied up the boat, they "wouldn't have been swimming around like the couple from Open Water (2003)".
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
 -  This DVD is seen on the shelf at West Coast Video.

Featured in

"30 Even Scarier Movie Moments" (2006)
 -  One of the movies profiled and shown.

Spoofs

"Shark Week" (1988)
 -  actors talk about

Spoofed in

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
 -  the flashback to the death of Deuce's wife

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