Part of THIS IS SEARCHLIGHT, our season celebrating 30 years of Searchlight Pictures.
Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a mute janitor at a top-secret government laboratory in gloomy Baltimore, finds herself inexplicably drawn to the facility’s newest research subject: a humanoid amphibian. Soon, amidst the stifling conformity of '60s America, Elisa becomes willing to risk everything – including her life – for the creature she loves.
A triumph of visual imagination that combines elements of sci-fi, film noir, and the golden-age musical, Guillermo del Toro's swooning cinematic dreamscape – winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director – is a monster movie with a human heart.
