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The whole movie's a giant croc.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Lake Placid
You'll never know what bit you.
1999 · 1h 22m · R
Action, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Steve Miner
Overview
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Director and cast
- Steve Miner Director
- Bill Pullman as Jack Wells
- Bridget Fonda as Kelly Scott
- Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr
- Brendan Gleeson as Sheriff Hank Keough
- Betty White as Mrs. Delores Bickerman
- David James Lewis as Walt Lawson
- Tim Dixon as Stephen Daniels
- Natassia Malthe as Janine
- Mariska Hargitay as Myra Okubo
- Meredith Salenger as Deputy Sharon Gare
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
47%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
A funny film!
Robert Horton, Film.com
Rotten
Lake Placid isn't so bad that it's good; it's so bad that it's really bad.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Pullman once made a career playing bumbling idiots, but now he seems to play only dashing leading men. He was better at bumblers.
Andy Seiler, USA Today
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