Lake Placid

Name: Lake Placid
Released: 1999-7-14
Cast: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson

Lake Placid

R
1h 22m
1999

47%

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A female paleontologist from New York City heads to Maine, where local fish and game officials have apparently discovered a gigantic and deadly 30-foot crocodile that appears to be living in one of the local lakes.

Director:

Steve Miner

Producer:

David E. Kelley, Michael Pressman

Writer:

David E. Kelley

Cast:

Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

47%

Critics Consensus: 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.

Reviews

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

It's Jaws, with a croc instead of a shark.

April 6, 2022

FULL REVIEW

Horror Queers Podcast

Trace Thurman

Kelley is an inspired choice for a screenwriter but none of this is actually funny. Also, less than 4 minutes of screen time for the croc in a 78-minute movie? No thank you!

This may be no more than a squib of a B movie, and it remains about as frightening as a fish tank, but, if you have any poetry in your soul, you will surely thrill to a film that ends with a crocodile sticking its head in a helicopter.

Everyone is quirky, witty, sarcastic, and unique, cleverly scripted to be an odd fit for a man-eating reptile flick.

Too many ingredients in this croc pot.

July 9, 2019

FULL REVIEW