Lake Placid (Widescreen Edition) |  | Actors: Adam Arkin, Tim Dixon, Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Mariska Hargitay
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  231 reviews
Sales Rank: 9597
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.7
MPN: D2000002D
UPC: 024543000020
EAN: 0024543000020
ASIN: B000035P86
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1999
Release Date: January 11, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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AN INVESTIGATIVE TEAM OF MALCONTENTS ARMED WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT, HIGH-POWERED WEAPONRY AND A BITING SENSE OF SARCASM, MUST WORK TOGETHER TO DEFEAT BLACK LAKE'S MOST FEROCIOUS RESIDENT: A 30-FOOT PREHISTORIC CROCODILE. BETTY WHITE CO-STARS AS THE CANTANKEROUS MRS. BICKERMAN.
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Lake Placid is total trash--and, as a result, fairly entertaining. Yet another entry in the horror subgenre of giant animals running amok, Lake Placid features a giant crocodile that has somehow found its way to an isolated lake in Maine. The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humor. Bridget Fonda (Point of No Return, Jackie Brown) plays a paleontologist sent to investigate a large tooth; Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Lost Highway) is a fish and game warden just trying to keep the peace; Oliver Platt (Funny Bones, Flatliners) plays a loose-cannon mythology professor who swims with crocodiles for sport; and Brendan Gleeson (an excellent but little-known actor, most noted for The General) is a local sheriff with a short temper and a big gun. Add a few gruesome dismemberments, Betty White as a cantankerous old broad who may have murdered her husband, and a cow hanging from a helicopter, and there you have it: Lake Placid. (Curiously, this concoction was put together by David E. Kelley, better known as the creator of TV's Ally McBeal and The Practice.) --Bret Fetzer
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 Lake Placid sounds like a scary horror movie and it is but just funny at the same time January 23, 2010
POD JAWS
Lake Placid is an overall awesome movie that will have a part 3 in october 2010 (according to IMDB)
Plot- a man is killed in a lake and people belivie it is a bear or a bevear, but they are wrong, now a 30 foot salt water crocodile is stalking the waters, now a group of people (with a biting sense of humor) are on the case
Acting- Bill Pulman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson and Betty White what an awesome cast
Gore- a dude bit in half, a decapitation and more
Bottom Line- 4 out of 5
Rated R for violent creature attacks and related gore, and for language, Time 82 minuets (Should of been Longer), 1999, Color
 Lake Placid January 5, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Welcome to Black Lake. Its placid waters compliment the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you'd expect a gruesome fatality. But then it's also the last place you'd expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptile of the species Crocodylus--an eating machine more commonly known as a crocodile. It is at this lake where an emotionally fragile, nature-phobic, New York paleontologist who's been reluctantly dispatched for her first real field assignment, teams up with an eccentric billionaire to find this menace. I enjoyed this movie. It was excellently done for the sarcastic delivery of Betty White..Oliver Platt...and the rest of the cast. Enough of the chills thrown in to complete the mix most appealingly. I would recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys sarcastic humor and a bit of thrill.
Love this movie January 4, 2010
Deborah Verlen (Chicago, IL USA)
Since I am the 230th reviewer, I'm sure by now you know the plot about the giant crocodile inhabiting the calm waters of Lake Placid. So I'll skip a synopsis and just say that I absolutely love this movie. It is kind of a B movie thriller with a little romance, a little tension, a little mystery and of course a BIG crocodile. I enjoy the way the characters interact from the folksy sheriff to the croc hunter to Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda's characters. In fact, as kitschy as the movie is, there are no miscast actors.
If you haven't seen the movie, you most likely will either love it or hate it! I've seen it at least a two dozen times and always find something new in the scenes to laugh over!
Fun and Gore October 23, 2009
drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
The picture should not have been as entertaining as it is. It has all the makings of another trivial monster from the lagoon film but saves itself with sufficient fun to make it worth watching.....if you have nothing better to do. Another element to its credit is the sketch of a romantic comedy which sort of weaves through the film, not taking the spotlight but adding a note of gaiety. Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman handle that part of it about as well as its throwaway role in the picture allows. The other players do a good job with the stereotypes they are playing and the creators of the monster are to be congratulated for the credible threat and camera-suitable appearance of their invention. Betty White is a happy addition to the cast in a small role.
All in all, not a film to search out and pay much for; but one that can be enjoyable when you are in the mood for it.
great movie July 6, 2009
Jennifer Guzman (Bronx, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is very good and and has a couple of funny parts. Some of the parts are not for children but mainly my kids love all kinds of movies with alot of action and monsters like this one.
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