Land of the Lost (film)
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| Directed by | Brad Silberling |
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Sid and Marty Krofft Jimmy Miller |
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Chris Henchy Dennis McNicholas |
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Land of the Lost by Sid and Marty Krofft, Allan Foshko and David Gerrold |
| Starring |
Will Ferrell Anna Friel Danny McBride Jorma Taccone |
| Music by | Michael Giacchino |
| Cinematography | Dion Beebe |
| Edited by | Peter Teschner |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100 million |
| Box office | $68.8 million |
Land of the Lost is a 2009 American adventure comedy film directed by Brad Silberling, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and Jimmy Miller, written by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas, distributed by Universal Pictures, co-produced by Relativity Media, Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures and Mosaic Media Group and starring Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel, loosely based on the 1974 Sid and Marty Krofft television series of the same name. The film was theatrically released on June 5, 2009 by Universal Pictures.
The film received generally negative reviews from critics and earned $68.8 million on a $100 million budget. It received a Golden Raspberry Award and was nominated for six more, including Worst Picture. The DVD was released on October 13, 2009, with sales reaching $20,286,563 as of August 2011.
Pompous paleontologist Rick Marshall has a low-level job at the La Brea Tar Pits, three years after a disastrous interview with Matt Lauer of Today became a viral video and ruined his career. Doctoral candidate student Holly Cantrell tells him that his controversial theories combining time warps and paleontology inspired her. She shows him a fossil with an imprint of a cigarette lighter that he recognizes as his own along with a crystal made into a necklace that gives off strong tachyon energy. She convinces him to finish his tachyon amplifier and come help her on a seemingly routine expedition to the cave where Holly found the fossil, which is in the middle of nowhere. With cave gift shop owner Will Stanton they raft into the cave, where Marshall has detected high levels of tachyons. He activates the tachyon amplifier, triggering an earthquake that opens a time warp into which the raft falls. The group finds themselves in a desert, filled with various items from many eras, and without the amplifier. They rescue a primate-like creature, Cha-Ka of the Pakuni tribe, who becomes their friend and guide.
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