# Lake Placid (1999)

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**Runtime**: 82 min
**Genres**: Horror, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Steve Miner
**Written by**: David E. Kelley
**Starring**: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White, David James Lewis

> *You'll never know what bit you.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A motorboat idles on a misted Maine lake at dawn, propellers dripping blood. The warden arrives before the paleontologist and her rubber boots. A sonar blip blooms into teeth in open water. Steve Miner’s 90s creature feature knows the joke before the first scream.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, playful, raw

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