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Lake Placid

You'll never know what bit you.

6.0(1,324)19991h 22m11

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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Status
Released
Budget
$27M
Box office
$56.9M
Language
English
Part of Lake Placid Collection · 6 films
  • sheriff
  • lake
  • diving
  • crocodile
  • animal attack
  • deputy
  • paleontologist
  • maine
  • decapitation
  • severed head
  • creature
  • scientist

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Steve Miner

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR16 Jul 1999
    • PhysicalRVHS / DVD11 Jan 2000
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1531 Mar 2000
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical28 Oct 1999
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical9 Sept 1999
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical181 Nov 2000
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical (limited)29 Oct 1999
    • Theatrical3 Mar 2000
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical20 Apr 2001
  • FinlandFI

    • TV2 Dec 2002
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical5 Jul 2000
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1624 Feb 2000
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical21 Oct 1999
  • HungaryHU

    • Theatrical1617 Feb 2000

Frequently asked questions

Lake Placid was released on 15 July 1999.

Audience reviews

8
  • J

    John Chard

    6/20/2016

    7.5/10

    Big Crocodile - Big Log - Big Fun. There's a gigantic crocodile loose in the waters of Maine. A number of local hicks and big city eccentrics converge to try and stop the beast... Wonderful! A modern day homage to the creature feature movies of lore. It's not a spoof, it's a fun packed tongue in cheek thriller, hell it may even have some literary worth as regards ecological concerns, while the cultural clashes …

  • G

    Gimly

    1/25/2018

    5/10

    Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

  • K

    Kamurai

    9/20/2020

    7/10

    Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. I like a crocodile movie, they don't even have to be giant-sized, they make really good "monsters", and the reality of their danger sits in the back of your head. The cast was great in this, though Bridget Fonda screams a lot, and I can't say it's very endearing. They do sort of a "unlikely crew" trope with this, but most of the movie is dedicated to trying t…

  • T

    Tejas Nair

    11/7/2020

    7/10

    It's the humour garnished all over Lake Placid that makes it more than an entertaining watch about crocodile terror. You know it's a spoof but you know there's danger out there too that the characters are going to fall into. Add to that the on-the-point performances and dialogue delivery by Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Brendan Gleeson and the overall atmosphere of the film, and you have a terrific film to enjoy w…

  • W

    Wuchak

    11/23/2021

    7/10

    _**Crocogator horror with humor**_ A monstrous croc is discovered to live in a remote lake in Maine and so a conflicting group of people join together to capture or kill it: the local Sheriff (Brendan Gleeson), a Fish and Game officer (Bill Pullman), a paleontologist (Bridget Fonda) and an expert croc hunter (Oliver Platt). Betty White is on hand as a comical lady who lives on the lake. “Lake Placid” (1999) is …

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