A 1993 science fiction-adventure film about a cloned dinosaur theme park, and the chaos that ensues, is based on Michael Crichton's 1990 novel of the same name. The book was successful, as was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film adaptation. The film received a theatrical 3D re-release in 2013, and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Crichton's 1995 sequel novel, The Lost World, was followed by a 1997 film adaptation, also directed by Spielberg. Crichton did not write any further sequels in the series, although Spielberg would return as executive producer for each subsequent film, starting with Jurassic Park III (2001).
Plot
Scientists funded by billionaire John Hammond have discovered how to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off of this technology, Hammond and his company, InGen, decide to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs. This in itself would not be such a bad idea — except the organizers are rushing to get it open, have built it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding instead to automate the whole thing with unreliable computers — even refusing to tell the software designer what the system is for.
Naturally, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. And Hammond's invited guests to this soft opening — paleontologist Alan Grant, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, chaotician Ian Malcolm, lawyer Donald Gennaro and Hammond's own grandchildren Tim and Lex Murphy — are caught in the middle of it all.
