Jaws: The Revenge goes back to the Brody family on Amity Island, only that Chief Brody has died from a heart attack. His widow, Ellen (Lorraine Gary), lives on the island close to her younger son ...

Yet much of Peter Benchley's Jaws, amazingly enough, takes place far from the water. Benchley's Chief Brody is not the thoughtful, loving, worried father — and father figure — Spielberg spun ...