The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film [6] directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of ... A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab fa... The Shape of Water is a captivating and enchanting fantasy drama film from 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the movie is set in Baltimore during the Cold War era in the 1960s. The story revolves around a lonely and isolated mute janitor named Elisa Esposito (played by Sally Hawkins) who works at the Occam Aerospace Research Center. Elisa lives a dull and repetitive life, which is disrupted when the laboratory receives a new subject for experimentation, a mysterious amphibian creature ... A mute cleaning woman becomes dangerously curious about an experiment being held at the top-secret government lab where she works.
