iF Rating: 6/13

Director: Steve Miner

Runtime: 82 min

Certification: (15)

Sub-Genre: Action | Comedy

Title: Lake Placid

Release Date: July 16, 1999

Writer: David E. Kelley

Copyrights: 20th Century Fox

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Info: ALLY McBEAL creator David E. Kelley wrote and produced this smalltown horror comedy with equal parts laughs and gore. When scientists studying beavers in a Maine lake are killed by something mysterious in the water, an investigation reveals a very large crocodile with an insatiable appetite. The cast of characters sent in to try to catch the murderous beast includes a game warden (Pullman), a scientist (Fonda), and a professor with a fondness for the scaly beasts (Platt). Betty White is an elderly local woman who has a knack for disarming everyone with her saucy language.