Lake Placid
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59% Critic Match

Lake Placid

You'll never know what bit you.

5.9 / 10 1999 1h 22mR English
HorrorComedyActionScience FictionThriller

Storyline

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!

Cast & Crew

Bill Pullman

Bill Pullman

Jack Wells

Lead
Bridget Fonda

Bridget Fonda

Kelly Scott

Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

Hector Cyr

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson

Sheriff Hank Keough

Betty White

Betty White

Mrs. Delores Bickerman

David James Lewis

David James Lewis

Walt Lawson

Tim Dixon

Tim Dixon

Stephen Daniels

Natassia Malthe

Natassia Malthe

Janine

What People Are Saying

3.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Steve Miner's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Lake Placid is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker