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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