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. The film stars Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Platt, Betty White, Meredith Salenger, and Mariska Hargitay. The film follows a giant crocodile terrorizing 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 in Black Lake, supervised by Sheriff Hank Keough. The officer is suddenly attacked underwater, and 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 crocodile dairy cattle dairy cow dive elderly widow even florida freshwater crocodile grenade launcher grizzly bear kill land mat moose mythology natural history paleontologist saltwater crocodile scuba diving sever sheriff survive track down trap travel 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 |