Synopsis
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
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Cast
- Bill PullmanJack Wells
- Bridget FondaKelly Scott
- Oliver PlattHector Cyr
- Brendan GleesonSheriff Hank Keough
- Betty WhiteMrs. Delores Bickerman
- David James LewisWalt Lawson
- Tim DixonStephen Daniels
- Natassia MaltheJanine
- Mariska HargitayMyra Okubo
- Meredith SalengerDeputy Sharon Gare
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
As irritating as Lake Placid sometimes is, it also has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years. The mismatched ingredients blend into a blissfully, stupidly surreal summer cocktail. - 60
The New Yorker
Comes in well under the ninety-minute mark, leaving no room for bombast or overkill. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The strange thing is that for all of Fonda's whining, Pullman's wary squinting and muttering, the bad dialogue, the cheesy effects, the severed toes, the severed heads, the severed bodies and the cliched directorial choices, Lake Placid adds up to a halfway enjoyable time at the movies. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
It also goes out of its way to give you a schlocky B-movie vibe by wrangling bait in the form of a bunch of Big-Gulp stupid stock characters - that's a whopping 44 oz. more stupid than you probably were bargaining for. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It’s a comedy, a romantic star vehicle, a thriller, a horror movie and a quasi-environmental parable that's calculated to appeal to all demographic groups. It's not enough of any one of these things to be particularly engaging. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Smoothly enjoyable, undemanding entertainment and features a couple of knock-out giant croc attacks. - 50
USA Today
Amusingly macabre. [16 July 1999] - 40
The New York Times
Trouble is, while not trading quips, the characters actually go through the motions of being scared of the croc, menaced by the croc and so on. And since even the gator horror satire is old hat (remember ''Alligator?''), there's no remaining way to make this interesting.
