Land of the Lost (2009) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	June 5, 2009
On DVD:	October 20, 2009
Genre:	Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director:	Brad Silberling
Writer:	Chris Henchy, Dennis McNicholas
Cast:	Will Ferrell, Danny R. McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Official site:	landofthelost.net
Running Time:	96 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language including a drug reference

Space-time vortexes suck. Will Ferrell stars as has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall, sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world—a place of spectacular sights and super-scaled comedy known as the Land of the Lost.

Sucked alongside him for the adventure are crack-smart research assistant Holly (Anna Friel)...

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Somebody keep Will Ferrell away from big screen television show adaptations. Please. If Bewitched was any indication, filmmakers should have seen the disaster that is Land of the Lost coming... but Hollywood executives haven't exactly shown that they learn from their mistakes. Land of the Lost, now available on DVD, was one of the summer's biggest flops - the $100 million film made less than half of that in theaters, and was Will Ferrell's lowest major opener of his career. Given the final product, it's not much of a surprise.

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