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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Sci-Fi

Release Date
May 23, 1997
Director
Steven Spielberg
Runtime
134
Main Genre
Action
Writers
Michael Crichton , David Koepp
Tagline
Something has survived.
Franchise
Jurassic Park

Summary

A few years back, venture capitalist John Hammond figured out how to recreate dinosaurs from DNA fragments encased in amber. He started a company called InGen, which placed the genetically engineered dinosaurs in a theme park on an island in Costa Rica. But the Jurassic Park systems broke down shortly before it could open, the dinosaurs got free and had to be destroyed, and the island was closed to the public. In the aftermath, everyone involved moved quickly to quash the story. InGen wanted to limit its liability. The Costa Rican government wanted to preserve its reputation as a tourist paradise. And the individual scientists who had been hired as consultants on the project were bound by nondisclosure agreements to remain silent. But as Dr. Ian Malcolm is about to find out ... SOMETHING HAS SURVIVED The Lost World: Jurassic Park is the sequel to Steven Spielberg's 1993 film recounting events on a Costa Rican island inhabited by genetically-engineered dinosaurs, which broke all box-office records and showcased an emerging visual effects technology. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, the story picks up four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park. Something has survived on Isla Sorna, a second island where the dinosaur manufacturing facility code-named Site B has been destroyed by a hurricane and the animals now run free, constrained only by the laws of nature.

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