The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed,

co-written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson.[1][2] It is Anderson's fourth feature-

length film and was released in the United States on 25 December, 2004. It was
written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around Naples, Ponza,
and the Italian Riviera.

The film stars Bill Murray as the eponymous Steve Zissou, an eccentric
oceanographer who sets out to exact revenge on the "jaguar shark" that ate his
partner Esteban. Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French diving pioneer
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910�1997), to whom the film is dedicated. Cate Blanchett,
Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon, Jeff Goldblum, Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Seu
Jorge, and Bud Cort are also featured in the film.