Mrs. Kitner (Movie Version)

Mrs. Kitner is a supporting character from the movie Jaws. She is the mother of Alex Kitner. Played by Lee Fierro.

Biography
Mrs. Kitner was first seen on the beach, the day after the attack on Chrissie Watkins. Because her death was ruled out as a boating accident, Mrs. Kitner was unaware that there was a shark on the loose in the beaches. When her son Alex, asks to go back in the water, with his inflatable raft, Mrs. Kitner refuses at first, citing his hands pruning for bein gin the water to long. After some pleading, Mrs. Kitner relents. When the shark attacks, Police Chief Martin Brody along with the rest of the concerned parents get the kids out of the water. Mrs. Kitner desperately looks for Alex, calling his name in a frantic panic. The only thing remaining of Alex is his inflatable raft, deflated, riddled with large bite marks and covered in blood. While she wasn't seen after, she has placed a $3000 bounty on whoever can kill the shark and was later implied to have sent the bounty out to every international newspaper. This in turn caused the media frenzy, in which outsider and insider fishermen rush to hunt the shark down. When the fishermen capture and kill a tiger shark, it is pinned as the culprit, much to the uncertainty of Brody and Matt Hooper. The latter of which citing the bite radius of the animal not matching Chrissie's wounds. Just as they are trying to convince Mayor Larry Vaughn, to perform an autopsy to be sure, Mrs. Kitner shows up in funeral clothes. She slaps Brody in the face for his part of Chrissie's cover up, believing that her son would have lived if the truth was in public. Vaughn tries to assure Brody, that Kitner is wrong, to which Brody disagrees. While she was never seen again afterwards, her confrontation with Brody inspires him to help Hooper prove whether or not the tiger shark is the culprit.