| | | An adventure 65 million years in the making.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Director Steven Spielberg presents a triumph of imagination, suspense, science and cinematic magic that has quickly become one of the most successful films in worldwide box-office history. On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park - and help calm anxious investors. However, their visit is anything but tranquil as the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results. Based on Michael Crichton's best-selling novel of the same name, JURASSIC PARK stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough. It's a breathtaking adventure you'll want to experience again and again.
Editor's Note
Steven Spielberg directed this blockbuster thriller based on the popular book by Michael Crichton. Millionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) asks two dinosaur experts (Laura Dern and Sam Neill) to act as consultants on his entrepreneurial endeavor--an amusement park with DNA-cloned live dinosaurs as the main attraction. The paleontologists, along with a mathematician (Jeff Goldblum) and Hammond's two grandchildren, takes a run-through tour of the park. But soon the joyride turns to terror when an impending hurricane, an unscrupulous engineer (Wayne Knight), and the rebelling dinosaurs begin to destroy the park. Spielberg considered the most popular star of the film to be a computer-generated Tyrannosaurus rex. The special effects in general are spectacular.As Hollywood's preeminent director, Spielberg was used as a kind of financial savior for Universal Studios, which was hurting economically prior to the dinosaurian venture. Spielberg made a deal with Universal--his dream project, SCHINDLER'S LIST, would be green-lighted if he agreed to make JURASSIC PARK for the studio first. By the time SCHINDLER'S LIST premiered in December 1993, JURASSIC PARK, which had been released six months earlier, had broken E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL's worldwide box-office record.
Plot Summary
Paleontologist Alan Grant and his paleobotanist girlfriend, Ellie Sattler, give lectures on dinosaur history between digs at remote exotic locales. One dusty afternoon, John Hammond, a millionaire inspired by scientific wonders, makes an offer to the erudite couple that they can't refuse: He asks them to act as consultants on his entrepreneurial endeavor--an amusement park with live dinosaurs as the main attraction. On an island off the coast of Costa Rica, Hammond's already biologically engineering living dinosaurs by extracting and reconstructing dino-DNA from fossilized insects. But bedlam ensues when Wayne, a computer genius, tampers with Jurassic Park's security system so that he can smuggle out a bunch of frozen embryos. The prehistoric creatures break loose around feeding time and the millionaire, the scientists, the park employees, and two children become fair game.
| Features | Cast & Filmmaker Bios | | DVD ROM | | Theatrical Trailers | | Documentaries | | Dinosaur Encyclopedia | | Production Notes | | English DTS | | English Captions | | Spanish Subtitles |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 10/10/2000 |
| Running Time: 127 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1993 | | Catalog ID: 20787 | | UPC: 00025192078729 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1994) |  | Richard Hymns, et al., Winner, Best Effects, Sound | | Michael Lantieri, et al., Winner, Best Effects, Visual Effects |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...A true movie milestone, presenting awe- and fear-inspiring sights never before seen on the screen..." 06/11/1993 p.C1Rolling Stone
"...Colossal entertainment....[An] eye-popping, mind-bending, kick-out-the-jams thrill ride....You won't believe your eyes..." 07/08/1993 p.120 USA Today
"...Utterly convincing, the film has two of the best thrill set pieces ever..." 06/11/1993 p.1D Variety
"...[It] delivers where it counts, in excitement, suspense and the stupendous realization of giant reptiles..." 06/14/1993 Chicago Sun-Times
"...You want great dinosaurs. You got great dinosaurs. Spielberg enlivens the action with lots of nice little touches..." 06/11/1993 p.39 Premiere
"[A] special-effects masterpiece." 12/01/2003 p.14 Reel Views 9 of 10
...the dinosaurs look so real that I half expected to see "dinosaur trainer" during the closing credits... Rightly so, crowds will flock to the theaters screening this movie so they can ooh and aah, jump in their seats, and root for the overmatched humans... [viewers] can't help being drawn into the pulse-pounding exhilaration of the chase... - James Berardinelli
Washington Post 8 of 10
A heart-pounding pace and a zoo parade of pre-historic behemoths power Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, a hallzapopping tour of the land that time almost forgot... it's a cinematic landmark... dino-mite. - Rita Kempley
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