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Lake Placid
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!
1999 · Directed by Steve Miner · 82 min · Horror · Comedy · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
You'll never know what bit you.
Plot
In Aroostook County, Maine, Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife officer Walt Lawson is scuba diving in Black Lake, supervised by Sheriff Hank Keough. The officer is suddenly attacked, and bitten in half by an unknown creature.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service officer Jack Wells, American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott, and Hank decide to investigate the incident. They are joined by Hector Cyr, a wealthy mythology professor and crocodile enthusiast, who suspects the culprit to be a freshwater crocodile, much to the disbelief of the group.
During the group's search on the lake, Kelly and Hank's canoe is flipped over, including the discovery of a severed human toe and a moose head. Hank's deputy Burke is killed when his head is bitten off, which confirms Hector's suspicions, although Hank remains skeptical. That evening, the group make camp and prepare a plan to capture the unseen creature.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David E. Kelley
- Cinematography: Daryn Okada
- Edited by: Marshall Harvey, Paul Hirsch
- Music: John Ottman
- Production design: John Willett
- Produced by: Michael Pressman, David E. Kelley
Cast
- 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
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Rocking Chair Productions, Fox 2000 Pictures, Phoenix Pictures, David E. Kelley Productions
- Budget: $27,000,000
- Box office: $56,870,414
- Themes: sheriff, lake, diving, crocodile, animal attack, deputy, paleontologist, maine, decapitation, severed head
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