Lake Placid

Lake Placid

Release Date

1999

Director

  • Steve Miner

Cast

  • Bridget Fonda
  • Bill Pullman
  • Oliver Platt
  • Betty White

Can the vicious, man-eating, prehistoric reptile terrorizing a Maine lake be stopped?

A picturesque lake in backwoods Maine is hardly the place you’d expect to find a giant, saltwater crocodile, but that’s just the first of many surprises in action thriller Lake Placid. The fearsome reptile is no ordinary croc—it’s a 30-foot long behemoth with a taste for human flesh. It’s up to a team led by game officer Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), grumpy sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), and paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) to put an end to the creature’s reign of terror with their limbs intact. Darkly comedic, gleefully gory, and knowingly ridiculous, this landlocked update of Jaws will have viewers rethinking their upcoming Maine vacations and seeing Betty White in an entirely new light.


Past Programs

2018

Now THAT'S a croc!

Philadelphia Film Society, Philadelphia, PA