Plot

the moving-picture show opens using a Maine sheriff accompanying a man of science world health organization is back testing Beaver population levels in water. a man of science is subjected to a horrific attack from either an unseen menace below the a water supply, & literally bitten around half.

The tooth is found embedded in the system & the asking is sent to the museum for an expert to are & examine it. Palaeontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda) is selected for the mission, largely because her romantic relationship by owning her boss has good broken higher following of his unfaithfulness by using an additional worker, & he wants for obviate her until she calmness down.

Scott examines the tooth & suspects it to become from either a crocodile. Reluctant to go to to a museum, she joins an expedition to investigate the flow of any stream. Matters come complicated using a arrival of Hector Cyr (Oliver Platt), a ill-famed & nonconcentric crocodile skilful world health organization believes that a beast come holy & tries to swim using the two. Together a class action attempt to find a beast & treat by having a threat it is.

Cast

Bill Pullman as Jack Wells Bridget Fonda as Kelly Scott Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr Brendan Gleeson as Sheriff Hank Keough Betty White as Mrs. Delores Bickerman David Lewis as Walt Lawson Tim Dixon when Stephen Daniels Natassia Malthe when Janine Mariska Hargitay when Myra Okubo Meredith Salenger when Deputy Sharon Gare Jed Rees when Deputy Burke Richard Leacock when Deputy Stevens Jake T. Roberts when Officer Coulson Warren Takeuchi when Paramedic Ty Olsson when State Trooper

Quotations

Kelly Scott : "Uh, there's something I wanted to ask you. What's it like to be a woman in the woods of Maine? I mean, the guys don't turn all horny or anything like they did in Deliverance, right?"

Mrs. Bickerman : "Oh, my husband passed away. It's been almost two years now." Sheriff Hank Keough : "My department doesn't have any record of that, Mrs. Bickerman." Mrs. Bickerman : "Well, I'm sorry. Incomplete records haunt me so."

Mrs. Bickerman : "Murders and rapes in the city, people bomb planes, can the police stop them? No! But feed one little cow to a crocodile..."

Kelly Scott : "I will NOT calm down! This is the second time I've been hit with a severed head and ''I DON'T LIKE IT!"

(When selecting the rotting toe) Hector : "Is this the man that was killed?" Sheriff Hank Keough : "He seemed taller."

Reception

Flow of any stream Placid occurs as combination of suspense, straight-out horror & comedy. Virtually all of a humous stems from either the "fish out of water" quality of Scott & a squabble between Hector & local Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson). a pic was usually recieved ill by audiences & critics - a most commin complaint was that a horror & comedy elements did non sit swell together, making the flick fail on each numbers. Roger Ebert described it as "completely wrong-headed from beginning to end"[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990716/REVIEWS/907160303/1023].

Trivia

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