Jurassic Park
Movie, 1993, The '90s, Set in Isla Nublar
Jurassic Park is #14 of 35 in release order and #14 of 35 in chronological order in the Steven Spielberg.
The story
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
Jurassic Park recap
When a park worker is killed by a velociraptor, the investors in John Hammond's new island theme park demand experts sign off on it. Hammond brings palaeontologist Alan Grant, palaeobotanist Ellie Sattler, mathematician Ian Malcolm and lawyer Donald Gennaro to Isla Nublar off Costa Rica, along with his grandchildren, Lex and Tim. The park holds living dinosaurs cloned from DNA preserved in mosquitoes trapped in amber, with gaps filled with frog DNA, and all of them are female so they cannot breed. Malcolm warns that life will find a way. During the tour, a storm hits, and computer programmer Dennis Nedry shuts down the park's security to smuggle embryos out for a rival company. The fences go dark, a Tyrannosaurus breaks out and eats Gennaro, and Nedry is killed by a Dilophosaurus. Grant finds hatched eggs: the dinosaurs are breeding.
Jurassic Park ending explained
Ellie restores the power, and the raptors, now loose, kill the game warden Muldoon and hunt the children through the visitor centre. Lex reboots the security system, and as the raptors corner the group, the T. rex bursts in and kills them. The survivors escape by helicopter, and Hammond gives up on his park.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is streaming on Philo, YouTube TV, and Starz in the US. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 91%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Hook, before Schindler's List.
- Chronological order: after Hook, before Schindler's List.
Cast
- Sam Neill as Grant
- Laura Dern as Ellie
- Jeff Goldblum as Malcolm
- Richard Attenborough as Hammond
- Bob Peck as Muldoon
- Martin Ferrero as Gennaro
- BD Wong as Wu
- Joseph Mazzello as Tim
- Ariana Richards as Lex
- Samuel L. Jackson as Arnold
- Wayne Knight as Nedry
- Gerald R. Molen as Harding
Directed by Steven Spielberg.