The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is
Wes Anderson's fourth feature length
film, released in the
U.S. on December 25, 2004. It was written by Anderson and
Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around
Naples,
Ponza and the
Italian Riviera.
The offbeat comedy stars
Bill Murray as Steve Zissou, an eccentric
oceanographer. In this
ensemble cast, Steve Zissou sets out to exact revenge on the "Jaguar
shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Murray's character is both a
parody of and
homage to
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, to whom the film is dedicated.
It was released May 10, 2005 on
DVD as part of
The Criterion Collection.