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Where was The Shape of Water filmed?

2017 film, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

  • Hamilton

The story is set in Baltimore, about 322 miles (518 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Baltimore
Filmed in
Hamilton
Distance
About 322 miles (518 km) between Baltimore and the nearest filming location.
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About The Shape of Water

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Released
2017
Director
Guillermo del Toro
Cast
Sally HawkinsMichael ShannonOctavia SpencerDoug JonesRichard JenkinsMichael StuhlbargNick SearcyNigel BennettLauren Lee SmithJohn Kapelos
Genre
ThrillerFantasyDramaRomanceMagic Realist
Awards
Golden Lion; Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Production Design and 2 more

In 1962, during the Cold War, Elisa Esposito works as a janitor in a secret government laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland.

Colonel Richard Strickland has captured a creature from a South American river and taken it to the facility for study, losing two fingers (which are unsuccessfully retransplanted) while interrogating it.

Giles reluctantly agrees to help Elisa free Amphibian Man after failing a work assignment and being rejected by a local restaurant manager whom he discovered was both racist and homophobic.

Famous lines from The Shape of Water

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • Y O UElisa
  • F U C KElisa
  • Do you have it?Military Police
  • What would you say?Elisa
  • What is she saying?Strickland

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