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Lake Placid
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5096
- IMDb #4849
- Google retired #2732
- Rotten Tomatoes #4161
- Metacritic #4389
- Letterboxd #4646
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3954
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4697
- Metacritic Critics #4606
- Metacritic Audience #3568
- Criticker #3572
- Kinopoisk #4836
- AlloCiné #5193
- Trakt #4410
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 28, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 40, everyone else 54.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A bizarre and gruesome death in a secluded Maine lake draws a team of experts to investigate: a paleontologist, a local sheriff, a cynical fish and game warden, and a mythology professor. Their scientific expedition turns into a fight for survival when they discover the culprit is a massive, incredibly aggressive crocodile. They must find a way to stop the prehistoric predator before it claims more victims.
Details
- Director
- Steve Miner
- Writer
- David E. Kelley
- Released
- 15 July 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $27.0M
- Box office
- $56.9M
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