
Jurassic Park is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and based on the book of the same name by Michael Crichton, first published in 1990. The movie features Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, and others.
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Storyline
Industrialist John Hammond has created a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, on Isla Nublar, a Costa Rican island. After a dinosaur handler is killed by a Velociraptor, the park’s investors, represented by lawyer Donald Gennaro, demand that experts visit the park and certify its safety.
Movie vs Book

Year
1993
Minutes
127
Movie Rate
8.10
Source: IMDb
Movie
Jurassic Park
Director: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Length: 2h7m
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Year
1990
Pages
466
Book Rate
8.08
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Book
Jurassic Park
Author: Michael Crichton
Country: USA
First published in: 1990
Length: 466 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Jurassic Park
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Series by Scott Kreamer, Lane Lueras
Movie by Colin Trevorrow
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