Challenging the Deep After Dark - The Abyss (1989)

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Friday 12 April | 7pm - 11.15pm

Dates
-
Ages
18+
Cost

Adult | $30

Classification rating: PG
Duration: 171 minutes

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Join in the movie mania at a special deep sea after dark event. 

Explore the JAMES CAMERON - CHALLENGING THE DEEP exhibition and consider how the science explored within compares with science fiction.  

Sit back with friends to enjoy a screening of the classic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron.  

Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star in this blockbuster classic. Formerly married petroleum engineers are drafted to assist a gung-ho Navy SEAL (Michael Biehn) with a top-secret recovery operation: a nuclear sub has been ambushed and sunk, under mysterious circumstances, in some of the deepest waters on Earth. 

"Colossally ambitious, this logistically boggling and technically brilliant film from writer-director James Cameron is a visual tour de force, featuring overall, the greatest underwater sequences ever seen on film"
– Duane Byrge, Rotten Tomatoes  

Light refreshments and snacks available with movie popcorn included.  Pre-screening cash bar available. 


  • 7pm - 8.15pm Explore the depths of the ocean in the JAMES CAMERON - CHALLENGING THE DEEP exhibition.
  • 8.15pm - 11.15pm Relax and enjoy the scifi classic film The Abyss (Special Edition).

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