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    Jurassic Park (1993)

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    Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur thriller grossed over $900 million worldwide, demonstrating once again the director’s uncanny insight into what the public – especially the young – will flock to.

    Slightly bonkers millionaire, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has created the ultimate theme park on a remote island, and he wants to offer a sneak preview to a few carefully selected people: palaeontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern); mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum); and Hammond’s own grandchildren Tim (Joseph Mazzello) and Lex (Ariana Richards).

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    What they find is a luscious isle populated by real-life dinosaurs recreated using DNA found in pieces of long-buried amber.

    A perfect sanctuary, in theory, but because the dinosaur breeds they have “made” include the infamous Tyrannosaurus Rex (and some nasty, toothy creatures named velociraptors), it’s obvious that the whole scheme is going to end in tears – and screaming and dying.

    Part monster movie and part disaster movie as the island is thrashed by a storm and the assembled characters find there is nowhere to hide from giant rampaging (and, one assumes, hungry) prehistoric creatures, Jurassic Park is packed with many thrills and jaw-dropping dino effects – and when we do finally meet the ass-kicking T. Rex it is in one of the movie’s fabulous set-pieces.

    The imperilled adults and children are stranded in the broken-down ‘ride’ (jeeps on a track taking them through the park) as the storm hits, the electric fences malfunction and the scariest dinosaur of them all gets loose.

    There are many other impressive moments, from the raptors in the kitchen to the T. Rex vs. raptor showdown. The extraordinarily lifelike dinosaurs were created by the Matsushita workshops.

    There is a perception that all of the dinosaurs in the film are computer-generated, when, in reality, probably two-thirds of the work was puppetry.

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    Doctor Alan Grant
    Sam Neill
    Doctor Ellie Sattler
    Laura Dern
    Doctor Ian Malcolm
    Jeff Goldblum
    John Hammond
    Richard Attenborough
    Robert Muldoon
    Bob Peck
    Donald Gennaro
    Martin Ferrero
    Doctor Wu
    B.D. Wong
    Tim Murphy
    Joseph Mazzello
    Lex Murphy
    Ariana Richards
    Ray Arnold
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Dennis Nedry
    Wayne Knight
    Gerry Harding
    Gerald R. Molen
    Juanito Rostagno
    Miguel Sandoval
    Lewis Dodgson
    Cameron Thor

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    Steven Spielberg

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