Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park

Release Date

1993

Director

  • Steven Spielberg

Cast

  • Sam Neill
  • Laura Dern
  • Jeff Goldblum
  • Richard Attenborough

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

Two dinosaur experts, Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), are invited by eccentric millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to preview his new amusement park on an island off Costa Rica. By cloning DNA harvested from prehistoric insects, Hammond's scientists have recreated living dinosaurs for the exhibits. Accompanied by a cynical mathematician who is obsessed with chaos theory (Jeff Goldblum) and the millionaire’s two grandchildren (Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards), the experts are sent on a tour through the resort in computer-controlled touring cars. But as a tropical storm hits the island, knocking out the power supply, an unscrupulous employee (Wayne Knight) sabotages the system so he can smuggle dinosaur embryos out of the park, and the dinosaurs rage out of control. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg directed the first installment of this epic sci-fi adventure film.

Past Programs

2012

Can dinosaurs be cloned?

Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2013

Dinosaurs: From fossils to film

The State Theatre, Modesto, CA

Chaos Theory

The Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO

2014

An Exploration of Paleontology

Civic Theatre of Allentown, Allentown, PA

2016

Humans versus Nature

Athens Ciné, Athens, GA

The Logistics of Operating a Jurassic Park

Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH

2017

How dinosaurs evolved

Wilmette Theatre, Wilmette, IL

2019

The science of Jurassic Park

Pickford Film Center, Bellingham, WA

Jurassic Park: fact vs. fiction

Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Bryn Mawr, PA

How to clone a dinosaur

Eureka Theater, Eureka, CA

2021

2024