ALJEAN HARMETZ: What happened in the eighties is that all the movies—an exaggeration, not all the movies but a great number of movies—were aimed at adolescents. And the teenagers took over the movie theaters, basically, between 1978 and 1984. Nobody was even making movies for adults, nobody wanted adults, because not only could they get a great deal of money from teenagers, they would go see a movie two, three, or four times. That was the other thing about Jaws: it was a movie that kids want to go back to over and over again.
