Jurassic Park

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    Jurassic Park
    1993

    Synopsis

    A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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    Cast

    • Sam NeillDr. Alan Grant
    • Laura DernDr. Ellie Sattler
    • Jeff GoldblumDr. Ian Malcolm
    • Richard AttenboroughDr. John Hammond
    • Bob PeckRobert Muldoon
    • Wayne KnightDennis Nedry
    • Ariana RichardsLex Murphy
    • Joseph MazzelloTim Murphy
    • Martin FerreroDonald Gennaro
    • Samuel L. JacksonRay Arnold

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      As a flight of fantasy, Jurassic Park lacks the emotional unity of Spielberg's classics ("Jaws," "Close Encounters," "E.T."), yet it has enough of his innocent, playful virtuosity to send you out of the theater grinning with delight.
    • 90

      Time

      For dinosaurs to rule the earth again, the monsters needed majesty as well as menace. And Spielberg got it all right. [14 June 1993, p.69]
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The movie delivers all too well on its promise to show us dinosaurs. We see them early and often, and they are indeed a triumph of special effects artistry, but the movie is lacking other qualities that it needs even more, such as a sense of awe and wonderment, and strong human story values.
    • 75

      Christian Science Monitor

      There's only one kind of movie that Spielberg has truly mastered: the kind that looks like a wide-screen video game complete with loony plot twists and mind-bending special effects. And that's Jurassic Park down to its bones. [11 June 1993, Arts, p.12]
    • 70

      The New York Times

      It becomes less crisp on screen than it was on the page, with much of the enjoyable jargon either mumbled confusingly or otherwise thrown away. [11 June 1993, p.C1]
    • 70

      Variety

      Spielberg's scary and horrific thriller may be one-dimensional and even clunky in story and characterization, but definitely delivers where it counts, in excitement, suspense and the stupendous realization of giant reptiles.
    • 60

      The New Republic

      The results make poor old King Kong look like something from a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Such is progress. [12 July 1993, p.26]
    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      All the imagination and effort (including 18 months of pre-production) that went into making the dinosaurs state-of-the-art exciting apparently left no time to make the people similarly believable or involving. In fact, when the big guys leave the screen, you'll be tempted to leave the theater with them. [11 June 1993, Calendar, p.F-1]

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