Lake Placid (film)

Lake Placid is a 1999 American monster horror comedy film. The film was written by David E. Kelley and directed by Steve Miner, starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White, Meredith Salenger and Mariska Hargitay. The plot revolves around a giant, 30footlong 9m maneating crocodile which terrorizes the fictional location of Black Lake, Maine, United States, and also follows the dysfunctional group who attempt to capture or destroy the creature.

In Aroostook County, Maine, marine Fish and Game officer Walt Lawson is attacked and bitten in half by something unseen in Black Lake. Sheriff Hank Keough Brendan Gleeson, Fish and Game officer Jack Wells Bill Pullman, American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Kelly Scott Bridget Fonda, and mythology professorcrocodile enthusiast Hector Cyr Oliver Platt go to the lake to investigate.A series of strange events occurs, including Kelly and Hanks canoe mysteriously flying into the air and flipping, the discovery of a severed toe and a severed moose head, and the decapitation of Burke, one of Hanks deputies. ........

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