Directed by: Steven Miner Produced & Written by: David E. Kelley Starring: Bill Pullman .... Jack Wells Bridget Fonda .... Kelly Scott Oliver Platt .... Hector Cyr Brendon Gleeson .... Sherrif Hank Keough Betty White .... Mrs. Delores Bickerman David Lewis .... Walt Lawson Tim Dixon .... Stephen Daniels Natassia Malthe .... Janine Mariska Hargitay .... Myra Okubo Meredith Salenger .... Deputy Sharon Gare Jed Rees .... Deputy Burke Release Date: Theatrical: July 16, 1999 Images courtesy at www.foxmovies.com Rating:

A sheriff named Hank Keough (Brendon Gleeson) does some researching with his deputy named Stevens (Richard Leacock) in a lake called Lake Placid. While Stevens is scubbadiving under water he is suddenly and quickly chomped in half by an unknown creature.
They bring some reserachers and other deputies into the area to help to find out what caused his death and bring up the local Game Warden named Jack Wells (Bill Pullman) and he teams up with a paleontologist named Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) from New York to find the beast.
Then arrives an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs" named Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt) who tells them they are dealing with a crocodile but some of them find it very hard to believe it is due to certain weather conditions during the different seasons at the lake.
Hector tries to set booby traps for the croc but Hank ends up being trapped in them all the time. While they are researching again in the lake, another deputy's head is chomped off by this crocodile who is a close friend of Hank's.
Next, they dicover that a nutty widow named Delores Bickerman (Betty White) whom they have questioned her before has been feeding this croc with her cattle to keep it alive. The team tries to find some way to flush it out of the lake by keeping it alive and transferring it to another department of a lake in another country before it kills more people, and this time it would be including them!

I very much enjoyed this film as it shows true talent into making a film with a good strong plot and not one of those typical type horror flicks that offers mainly killing to cover the storyline.
This is packed with action and comedy as well making this film a major entertainment vehicle to watch as well.
It's both witty, terrifying and adventurous all together.
I advise horror fans to watch this piece if they haven't already as they has a terrific set to shoot this thing.

The acting is great and has an interesting cast of characters.
We have a great co-starring role by Brendon Gleeson as the temperamental Sherrif who is funny in his role when he loses it with Oliver Platt's eccentric character.
There's also a hilarious supporting role by Betty White as the nutty bubble-headed widow which should give you a few laughs if you enjoyed her work in shows before, since she usually played these types of roles.
All of the other cast members pull extremely well in their roles which should please everyone, regardless.

A deputy is chomped in half which is very gruesome and graphic
A decapitated moose's head is found in a lake
A persons head rolls in towards the camp scene of the researchers.
We also get the croc quickly chomping off another deputy's head.

Steve Miner is the man for this one and we all remember how he started when he worked in the first two sequels of Friday the 13th, during which time his work lacked somewhat.
However, with this film he is far from lacking and shows major improvement.
He shows terrific scenery as well as fast action with the crocodile attacking
(using special effects) and terrific action with the actors as well, making them seem unbelievably funny with their comedic lines.
A really suspenseful scene he directed was when Platt's character was in the lake face to face with the croc, during which time you may think to yourself "Any sudden moves and this beast will chomp you faster than a speeding bullet!"
He also made the scene, where the chopper crashes into the lake, look completely real and dynamic as well.

Excellent composing by John Ottman as he brings the suspense with his classical composing when it's necessary and making it sound very mainstream.
His direction with musical backgrounds is guaranteed to make you jump at times.

We have a three songtracks used in the film and one of them is a cover song of The Partridge Family's classic "I Think I Love You", played during the beginning of the movie when the sherrif and deputy are doing reserch work in the lake and the son is playing on their radio.
Also there is a song entitled "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones and during the closing credits there's a reggae song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers with their track "Is this Love".

Mrs. Bickerman: I'm rooting for the crocodile. I hope he swallows your friends whole.

[Upon finding a decaying toe]
Hector: Is this the man that was killed?
Sheriff Hank Keough: He seemed... taller.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Ma'am, your husband Bernie, you didn't by any chance lead him to the lake blindfolded?
Mrs. Bickerman: If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it!

[to a game warden]
Hector Cyr: I'm a civilian, not a trout - you have no authority over me whatsoever.

Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake Placid, but we heard that name was already taken.

Jack Wells: It's not a science trip.
Kelly Scott: Could you be a little more condescending? 'Cause I'm not real great with subtlety.
Jack Wells: Something in that lake killed somebody, all right? I appreciate your trying to help. I'm really glad that you... brought the RAID.
Kelly Scott: There, that's better.
Jack Wells: Ma'am...
Kelly Scott: Look, if you call me "ma'am" one more time I'll sue you for sexual harrassment, and with today's laws, it's possible.
Sheriff Hank Keough: She's good.

Kelly Scott: You got to fire your big gun. Did it meet your expectations?
Sheriff Hank Keough: Overrated.

Kelly Scott: I don't do field and even if I did... Maine? I'm allergic to timber!

Sheriff Hank Keough: I... I... I never heard of a crocodile crossing an ocean.
Hector Cyr: Well, they conceal information like that in books.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Tents were sent ahead. Should already be set up by the time we get there.
Kelly Scott: Tents? We're staying in TENTS?
Sheriff Hank Keough: I told you, two days we'd have to camp.
Kelly Scott: Yes! Camp! But I thought that meant Ramada Inn. I never heard tents! Will there be toilets?
Jack Wells: Maybe we should just take you back.
Kelly Scott: Why? Because I prefer toilets?
Kelly Scott: Maybe I should just wipe myself with some leafy little piece of poison oak. And then I can spend the whole day scratchin' my ass, blendin' in with the natives.

Kelly Scott: Uh, there's something I wanted to ask you. What's it like to be a woman in the woods of Maine? I mean, the guys don't turn all horny or anything like they did in Deliverance, right?
[She sees Jack Wells is listening]
Kelly Scott: Ahh... I knew you were there.
Jack Wells: Hmm. Never been to Maine before, huh?
Kelly Scott: Oh, I have good hygiene, I'm not welcome.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Who are you?
Hector Cyr: Hector Cyr, I said it once, lemme know when it sinks in, OK?

Sheriff Hank Keough: Crocodiles can't swim in salt water.
Hector Cyr: Yeah, well, that'll be your little secret.

[Sheriff Keough finds two of his deputies digging a deep hole and gives them an icy stare]
1st Deputy: He paid us. Five hundred.
2nd Deputy: It's a trap.
Sheriff Hank Keough: You accepted money from him?
1st Deputy: We took a check.

[Hector Cyr is dancing with a female Deputy Sheriff]
Hector Cyr: Law enforcement is very dangerous work isn't it?
[She nods]
Hector Cyr: And you have such big, wonderful boobs.
Deputy Sharon Gare: Ha! Thank you!

[Hector Cyr is preparing to SCUBA dive to look for the crocodile]
Sheriff Hank Keough: I brought a pork chop for luck. Maybe you could hang it around your neck.
Hector Cyr: That's sweet. Maybe later you can chew the bark off my big fat log.

Mrs. Bickerman: Oh, my husband passed away. It's been almost two years now.
Sheriff Hank Keough: My department doesn't have any record of that, Mrs. Bickerman.
Mrs. Bickerman: Well, I'm sorry. Incomplete records haunt me so.
Jack Wells: What was the cause of your husband's death, ma'am? Do you know?
Kelly Scott: We don't mean to invade your privacy, but was he ill, was he sick?
Sheriff Hank Keough: Was he swallowed?

Sheriff Hank Keough: The tooth is in here.
Kelly Scott: Well that's... that's the morgue.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yes.
Kelly Scott: Well, uh... is the dead guy in there?
Sheriff Hank Keough: That's where they keep 'em. Look, you want me to bring the tooth out here?
Kelly Scott: No. No, let's... after you.

Hector Cyr: I am a brown belt! Go ahead! Take your best shot! Take your best
[the sheriff punches him in the nose, knocks him flat]
Sheriff Hank Keough: He said he knew karate.
Jack Wells: You hit him.
Sheriff Hank Keough: I did, yeah.
Hector Cyr: Did he say "go"? Aren't you supposed to say "go" in karate? You're supposed to say "go"!

Sheriff Hank Keough: Look. He's suffering. I get to be humane.
[Aims grenade launcher]
Hector Cyr: No! No. No, no, no look, he's trapped. We've done it. So what it's not a net but, but, but he's trapped. Mission accomplished.
Jack Wells: Shoot him!
Hector Cyr: I've got more drugs. He's half dead.
Jack Wells: He's half alive! Shoot him!

Mrs. Bickerman: Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop 'em? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile...
Sheriff Hank Keough: You're gonna stay right here until the police show. You're under full house arrest.
Mrs. Bickerman: Thank you, officer fuck-meat!

[the U.S. and Florida game officials finally show up]
Sheriff Hank Keough: We, uh, trapped him with our chopper.

Hector Cyr: He bit me! He bit me! There's two! There's two!
Sheriff Hank Keough: I can count.
[the second crocs rears up out of the water and the sheriff blows his head off with the grenade launcher]
Sheriff Hank Keough: Back to one.

Hector Cyr: What'd Bickerman say?
Jack Wells: Well, she didn't want to tell us about the second croc 'cause she was afraid we'd blow its head off.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Women's intuition.

[to the sheriff]
Hector: Sometimes when friends of the family say things, they tend not to sink in. So maybe it would help to hear it from a complete stranger. YOU'RE FAT.

Kelly Scott: His scales were oval. He's an Asian Crocodile.
Sheriff Hank Keough: Why... why would he come here? I mean, it's impossible. Asia. How would he get here?
Hector Cyr: Obviously some asshole in Hong Kong flushed him down the toilet.

Mrs. Bickerman: I'll sue you!
Jack Wells: Go ahead.
Mrs. Bickerman: You can't take a cow by eminent domain!
Sheriff Hank Keough: We just did.
Jack Wells: We won't let her get hurt, Ma'am.
Mrs. Bickerman: You're all cocksuckers! I knew it first, I just didn't want to say it!

Kelly Scott: What kind of backup do we have?
Sheriff Hank Keough: We?
Kelly Scott: What?
Sheriff Hank Keough: Well, I'm a little unclear as to why the museum would send somebody here.
Kelly Scott: You got a thing against museums?
Sheriff Hank Keough: Naw, I got nothin' against museums.
Kelly Scott: Ever been in one?

[Kelly slaps Keough]
Sheriff Hank Keough: Quit hitting me!
Kelly Scott: Stop throwing heads at me!

Sheriff Hank Keough: We're saved! The museum in New York just sent us some additional backup.
Kelly Scott: Kelly Scott.
Jack Wells: Jack Wells.
Kelly Scott: Hi.
Jack Wells: Eh, some museum sent ya', huh?
Kelly Scott: What, are we all museum bigots in Maine?
Sheriff Hank Keough: She's rude sarcastic. You two should get along.

Jack Wells: Do you know how your husband died?
Mrs. Bickerman: Oh yes! I killed him.
Jack Wells: You killed him?
Mrs. Bickerman: Oh yes!

Kelly Scott: I will NOT calm down! This is the second time I've been hit with a severed head and I DON'T LIKE IT!

Hector Cyr: Let's not overlook the fact that he didn't eat me.
Jack Wells: 'Cause he just ate a cow, stupid!

[In the progress of taming the crocodile instead of killing it]
Kelly Scott: We're doing the right thing.
Jack Wells: You wouldn't think so if you are eaten.

Hector Cyr: Did she tell you we had sex? So vigorous!
Kelly Scott: I *never* had sex with you!
Hector Cyr: Damn, I'm so terrible, they never remember.

Hector Cyr: You're supposed to say 'go' in karate. You face each other, you bow, and you say go!
Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, as in go fuck yourself!

Mrs. Bickerman: Is it illegal to wish the chewing of law enforcement?

Mrs. Bickerman: [slapping her cow to the crocodile] Come and get it.

Kelly Scott: You hurt his feelings.
Jack Wells: I don't care.
[to Keough]
Jack Wells: Do you care?
Sheriff Hank Keough: No, he's an asshole.

Sheriff Hank Keough: Oh God, we forgot to pack feminine napkins!

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• Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
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