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      Lake Placid

      1999, Horror/Comedy, 1h 22m

      96 Reviews 100,000+ Ratings

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      Betty White's delightful supporting turn may be worth the price of admission alone, but Lake Placid is swamped by a smarmy script and inability to deliver on the creature feature mayhem. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      When a mysterious creature violently kills a man in a Maine lake, Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), the local game warden, looks into the bizarre case, along with Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson) and visiting paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda). Looking for clues in a tooth that the beast left behind, Kelly and the others eventually locate the monster, a massive and vicious reptile eager to devour anything in its path. Can the crocodile-like creature be stopped?

      • Rating: R

      • Genre: Horror, Comedy

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Steve Miner

      • Producer: David E. Kelley, Michael Pressman

      • Writer: David E. Kelley

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Box Office (Gross USA): $31.8M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: 20th Century Fox

      • Production Co: Fox 2000 Pictures, Rocking Chair Productions, Phoenix Pictures

      • Sound Mix: Surround

      • Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

      Cast & Crew

      Bill Pullman
      Bridget Fonda
      Oliver Platt
      Brendan Gleeson
      Betty White
      Tim Dixon
      Meredith Salenger
      Peter Bogart
      John Ottman
      Daryn Okada
      Marshall Harvey
      John Willett
      William Heslup
      Ted Kuchera
      Jori Woodman

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      • Sep 10, 2020

        An extremely strange blockbuster that features an overly sarcastic screenplay by David E. Kelley and a supporting performance from Betty White. Despite these weirder elements, the movie is a little dull which is a shame.

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      • Jan 24, 2018

        Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin.

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      • Nov 15, 2013

        I love genre-bending movies, and especially those that mix horror with comedy. That puts me dead center of the target demographic of this film. The plot is pretty silly and there certainly isn't enough action for anyone looking for scares. What saves it is the script. It's witty and never takes itself too seriously. The characters are all foils for one another, setting up some of the most entertaining dialog of any movie I know. The plot revolves around a 30 foot Asian crocodile somehow winding up in a lake in Maine - go figure. What makes the movie are the characters assembled to do something about it. Bridget Fonda is an annoying paleontologist who's never before ventured out of her museum. Here, she plays both the archetypal fish out of water as well as potential romantic interest for the local game warden, played by Bill Pullman. The essential characters are rounded out by Brendan Gleeson's dour sheriff, Oliver Platt's rich and eccentric mythology buff, and Betty White as the colorful local little old lady with a secret or two. As I said, reduced to a plot outline, it's pretty unimpressive, but the verbal barbs that fly back and forth between the characters are what make the show. It's an "action/horror" movie I could watch with my eyes shut and still enjoy. 5 Stars 11-05-13

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      • Oct 21, 2011

        To begin with its not even Lake Placid, but some other lake, this one up in Maine ("the graveyard of horror!" ... I just said that. I don't know if its true. Like the sound of it though. London's maybe the real graveyard ... anyway ) and there's something in the water, something big, and its eating people. Funny and cool creature feature.

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