Jurassic Park (movie)

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It is about a group of people visiting a park on an island where dinosaurs have been brought back to life. They have to survive when the dinosaurs break out. It premiered on June 11, 1993. It is one of the most famous movies ever made involving dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Written byScreenplay
David Koepp
Malia Scotch Marmo (uncredited)
Michael Crichton
Novel:
Michael Crichton
Produced byKathleen Kennedy
Gerald R. Molen
StarringSam Neill
Laura Dern
Jeff Goldblum
Richard Attenborough
Joseph Mazzello
Ariana Richards
Martin Ferrero
Bob Peck
Samuel L. Jackson
Wayne Knight
CinematographyDean Cundey
Edited byMichael Kahn
Music byJohn Williams
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release date
June 11, 1993
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$95,000,000[1]
Box office$1.034 billion

Plot

John Hammond, the owner of a scientific company, creates a theme park on an island that has dinosaurs which have been brought back to life by being cloned. He invites Dr. Alan Grant, a man who studies dinosaurs and doesn't work well with kids, and Dr. Ellie Sattler, a woman who studies ancient plants, to visit the park.

Along with a mathematician named Ian Malcolm and a lawyer named Donald Gennaro, they go to the park and see a few dinosaurs, like Brachiosaurus. John says that the dinosaurs were brought back because of the dinosaur DNA found in some mosquitoes. To fix any broken parts of the DNA, they added the DNA of frogs to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were all made to be female so that they would not breed.

Lex and Tim Murphy, who are Hammond's grandkids, join the group. The group goes on a tour of the park in some Ford Explorer cars. A tropical storm heads towards the park, and it starts raining. Ellie is separated from the group when she tries to help a sick Triceratops. Dennis Nedry, a worker at the park, betrays Hammond so he can get money from another company, and he turns off the park's safety systems. The cars that the group are in aren't able to move anymore.

Many dinosaurs, including a T. rex, break out of their pens. The T. rex eats Donald, hurts Ian, and pushes a car off a cliff. As Dennis tries to escape the park, he gets killed by a Dilophosaurus.

Ellie, along with Robert Muldoon, a park worker, look for survivors. They rescue Malcolm and escape the T. rex in a Jeep. John, along with the park's main engineer named Ray Arnold, decide to reboot the park's systems. During the rebooting, the dangerous Velociraptors escape and start to wander the park.

When Ray goes missing, Ellie goes to finish the rebooting process. She finds that Ray has been killed, and she runs away from one raptor. Two of the raptors show up, and they surprise and kill Robert. Meanwhile, Alan, Lex, and Tim, spend the night in a tall tree. They make friends with a Brachiosaurus.

The next day, Alan, Lex, and Tim discover dinosaur eggs. At first, they are confused, since the dinosaurs are all female, and eggs can't be laid unless there is a male dinosaur involved. Alan figures out that the frog DNA in the dinosaur DNA allows the dinosaurs to change their genders.

They come across a group of running Gallimimus, and they head towards an electric fence. When the park's power turns back on, Tim gets shocked by the fence and gets hurt. As Alan goes to look for Ellie, Lex and Tim are hunted by the raptors in a kitchen. They escape and meet up with Alan and Ellie. All four of them end up cornered by the raptors in the park's atrium, but the T. rex arrives and kills the raptors.

John, Alan, Ellie, Ian, Lex, and Tim, all survive, and leave the park in a helicopter. John is disappointed that the park was unsuccessful, but Ellie is happy that Alan has learned to get along with kids.

Production

The movie was based off a book by Michael Crichton. A few people wanted to be the director of the movie, like Tim Burton. Eventually, Steven Spielberg was chosen to direct.

Filming the movie started in 1992 on Kaua'i, an island in Hawaii. The filming was stopped for a day because Hurricane Iniki passed over the island. A few of the scenes in the movie that involve rain were actually filmed during the hurricane. Other scenes were filmed in California, on a stage at Warner Bros. Studios, and in other places in Hawaii.

At first, the dinosaurs were going to be made using stop-motion, but Spielberg didn't think it looked real enough. The dinosaurs in the movie were created using ways called animatronics and CGI. The dinosaurs were either robots, puppets, or made with computers.

After filming for the movie was over, Spielberg monitored the effects work while he was in the country of Poland, where he was filming another movie, Schindler's List.

The music that plays in the movie was composed by John Williams.

Release

Jurassic Park got positive reviews, as many critics and moviegoers enjoyed it. Many people praised the movie's special effects and music. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects), and won all three.

At the time, Jurassic Park had made more money than any other movie. However, the movie Titanic ended up making even more money, breaking the record.

CountryPremiere
 Canada11 June 1993
 United States11 June 1993
 Brazil25 June 1993
 Colombia2 July 1993
 Uruguay2 July 1993
 Chile8 July 1993
 El Salvador9 July 1993
 Argentina15 July 1993
 Belize16 July 1993
 Costa Rica16 July 1993
 United Kingdom16 July 1993
 Guatemala16 July 1993
 Honduras16 July 1993
 Ireland16 July 1993
 Malta16 July 1993
 Nicaragua16 July 1993
 Panama16 July 1993
 South Korea17 July 1993
 Taiwan17 July 1993
 Ecuador21 July 1993
 Dominican Republic22 July 1993
 Peru23 July 1993
 Japan24 July 1993
 Bolivia29 July 1993
 Hong Kong29 July 1993
 Israel30 July 1993
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda4 August 1993
 Barbados4 August 1993
Dominica Dominica4 August 1993
Grenada Grenada4 August 1993
 Jamaica4 August 1993
Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis4 August 1993
Saint Lucia Saint Lucia4 August 1993
 Puerto Rico4 August 1993
 Trinidad and Tobago4 August 1993
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines4 August 1993
 Indonesia5 August 1993
 Malaysia5 August 1993
 Singapore5 August 1993
 Thailand5 August 1993
 Philippines11 August 1993
 Venezuela11 August 1993
 Fiji20 August 1993
 New Zealand20 August 1993
 Australia2 September 1993
 Germany2 September 1993
 Austria3 September 1993
 Finland3 September 1993
 Norway3 September 1993
 Poland3 September 1993
 Sweden3 September 1993
 Bulgaria17 September 1993
 Denmark17 September 1993
Faroe Islands Faroe Islands17 September 1993
 Italy17 September 1993
 Turkey17 September 1993
 South Africa17 September 1993
 Hungary24 September 1993
 Spain30 September 1993
 Greece30 September 1993
 Croatia30 September 1993
 Netherlands30 September 1993
 Slovenia30 September 1993
 Ghana1 October 1993
 Portugal1 October 1993
 United Arab Emirates4 October 1993
 Bahrain4 October 1993
 Egypt4 October 1993
 Kenya4 October 1993
 Kuwait4 October 1993
 Namibia4 October 1993
 Nigeria4 October 1993
 Zimbabwe4 October 1993
 Czech Republic14 October 1993
 Slovakia14 October 1993
 Cyprus15 October 1993
 Belgium20 October 1993
 Algeria20 October 1993
 France20 October 1993
 Luxembourg20 October 1993
 Morocco20 October 1993
 Monaco20 October 1993
 Russia20 October 1993
 Tunisia20 October 1993
 Ukraine20 October 1993
 Lebanon22 October 1993
 Romania11 March 1994
 India15 April 1994
 Sri Lanka15 April 1994
 Pakistan15 April 1994

3-D version

CountryPremiere
 United Arab Emirates4 April 2013
 Australia4 April 2013
 Bahrain4 April 2013
 Hong Kong4 April 2013
 Kuwait4 April 2013
 Serbia4 April 2013
 Russia4 April 2013
 Ukraine4 April 2013
 India5 April 2013
 United States5 April 2013
 Cambodia11 April 2013
 Pakistan12 April 2013
 Slovenia25 April 2013
 Belgium1 May 2013
 France1 May 2013
 Hungary2 May 2013
 Netherlands2 May 2013
 New Zealand2 May 2013
 Bulgaria3 May 2013
 Taiwan3 May 2013
 Finland10 May 2013
 South Africa10 May 2013
 Philippines29 May 2013
 Malaysia30 May 2013
 Singapore30 May 2013
 Thailand30 May 2013
 Egypt5 June 2013
 Sweden5 June 2013
 Vietnam7 June 2013
 Estonia11 June 2013
 Iceland12 June 2013
 Denmark13 June 2013
 Norway14 June 2013
 Romania14 June 2013
 Greece20 June 2013
 Portugal20 June 2013
 South Korea27 June 2013
 Israel18 July 2013
 Turkey9 August 2013
 Peru15 August 2013
 Brazil16 August 2013
 Ecuador16 August 2013
 China20 August 2013
 Bolivia22 August 2013
 Spain23 August 2013
 United Kingdom23 August 2013
 Ireland23 August 2013
 Mexico23 August 2013
 Chile29 August 2013
 Uruguay29 August 2013
 Colombia30 August 2013
 Germany5 September 2013
 Venezuela13 September 2013
 Argentina3 October 2013

Sequels

Jurassic Park has five sequels: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). Animated web series include: LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.

References

  1. McBride. Joseph 1997. Steven Spielberg. Faber and Faber, 416–9. ISBN 0-571-19177-0

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