The ONE and ONLY dinosaur movie. Okay, not the one and only, but the one that stomps and roars above the rest. The original dino flick. Join us as we discuss "Jurassic Park".

Recorded: 07.31.2025

- Flick Details -

Country of Origin: United States

Release Date: June 11, 1993 (U.S.)

Run Time: 2 Hr 7 Min

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer(s): Michael Crichton, David Koepp

Producer(s): Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy (among others)

Composer: John Williams

Cinematographer: Dean Cundey

Editor: Michael Kahn

Cast: Sam Neill (Grant), Laura Dern (Ellie), Jeff Goldblum (Malcolm)

Genre: Dinosaur, adventure, sci-fi thriller

Rating and Why: PG-13 for intense science fiction terror

Film Location(s): California and Hawaii

Budget: 63M

Box Office: 47M opening weekend US & Canada, 1.1B worldwide

Awards: 3 Oscars - best sound, effects (sound and visual)

Time Frame: Early 1990s

Setting: Isla Nubar near Costa Rica

Synopsis: Dinosaur park trial goes horribly wrong…

Tagline: “An adventure 65 million years in the making”

Watch On: Peacock and Rent on Prime Video

IMDb - 8.2 (1.1M), #140 in Top 250

Letterboxd - 4.1 (182K)

Rotten Tomatoes - 91% critic (202), 91% audience (250K+)

Metacritic - 68 Metascore (21) ”Generally Favorable”, 8.9 User Score (1.2K) “Universal Acclaim”

Critic Consensus (RT) - “Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg’s best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since Jaws.”

- Our Ratings -

Dylan: 5

Jesse: 5.3

Dawson: 5.3

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