Lake Placid Poster
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Release Date: 1999

DVD Release Date: January 11th, 2000

R|1 hr 22 min

Plot Summary
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?

Cast: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White, David Lewis, Tim Dixon, Natassia Malthe

Director: Steve Miner

Genres: Comedy, Horror

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

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  • 50
    Wesley MorrisSan Francisco Examiner

    It also goes out of its way to give you a schlocky B-movie vibe by wrangling bait in the form of a bunch of Big-Gulp stupid stock characters - that's a whopping 44 oz. more stupid than you probably were bargaining for. show more

  • 50
    Mick LaSalleSan Francisco Chronicle

    The strange thing is that for all of Fonda's whining, Pullman's wary squinting and muttering, the bad dialogue, the cheesy effects, the severed toes, the severed heads, the severed bodies and the cliched directorial choices, Lake Placid adds up to a halfway enjoyable time at the movies. show more

  • 63
    Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)

    A formulaic thriller, treated in a style that's just shy of outright parody. show more

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