Lake Placid
Lake Placid is a 1999 American comedy horror film directed by Steve Miner and written by David E. Kelley. It is the first installment in the Lake Placid film series and stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White, Meredith Salenger, and Mariska Hargitay. In the film, a giant crocodile terrorizes the fictional location of Black Lake, Maine, while a dysfunctional group of police and scientists attempt to capture or kill the beast.
Plot
In Aroostook County, Maine, Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife officer Walt Lawson is scuba diving with Sheriff Hank Keough in Black Lake when he is suddenly bitten in half by an unknown creature.
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| author | David E. Kelley |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Maine |
| director | Steve Miner |
| editor | Marshall Harvey Paul Hirsch |
| genre | comedy horror |
| keywords | american museum of natural history attack bear attack camp canoe capture city girl country folk crocodile crocodile attack dairy cattle dairy cow dive elderly widow even florida grenade launcher grizzly bear id kill learn mat moose mythology natural history paleontologist saltwater crocodile scuba diving sever sheriff survive trap triassic triassic period united states fish and wildlife service wildlife conservation |
| musicBy | John Ottman |
| producer | David E. Kelley Michael Pressman Peter Bogart |
| productionCompany | Fox 2000 Pictures |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| recordedAt | British Columbia Maine Vancouver |
| theme | comedy horror |