Brought to the screen by two AFI Life Achievement Award honorees and the Chair of the AFI Board of Trustees – respectively, director Steven Spielberg, composer John Williams and producer Kathleen Kennedy – JURASSIC PARK (1993) was also recognized by the American Film Institute among the most thrilling motion pictures of all time. With the long-extinct reptiles unleashed upon the island to cause unimaginable – or perhaps, according to the “chaos theory” espoused by Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm, entirely imaginable – havoc, the devastation would have been far worse if Wayne Knight’s Dennis Nedry had his way; the park’s computer scientist attempted to smuggle dino-DNA off-island in a specially constructed Barbasol canister but instead met his messy demise after encountering some hungry Dilophosaurs.

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