Jurassic Park is a 1993 American film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Michael Crichton's novel, following a group of visitors to an island theme park who find themselves fighting to survive after a security failure allows genetically recreated dinosaurs to roam free. The film combined practical animatronic effects with newly developed computer-generated imagery to render its dinosaurs, a technical approach widely credited with changing how visual effects were made in mainstream cinema afterward. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film in the world at the time of its release and eventually the oldest film to pass one billion dollars in worldwide box office receipts.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Michael Crichton's novel, following a group of visitors to an island theme park who find themselves fighting to survive after a security failure allows genetically recreated dinosaurs to roam free.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's 1990 novel.
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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's 1990 novel.
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