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Alligator (1980)

Plot Synopsis: Twelve years ago, the Kendall family's pet alligator was set free in the Chicago sewers, where it fed on the bodies of dogs used in genetic experiment... (read more)

Rated R, 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed by: Lewis Teague
Release Date: Jan 01, 1980
On DVD: Sep 18, 2007
All Flixster Ratings: 3.0 Stars (472)
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14 days ago
4.5 Stars
Wow, very entertaining... A cute little babyalligator is flushed down the toilet, and 12 years later it has turned into a *giant* MF... You know it´s great stuff when you find yourself hoping the leads will get together - and hope the alligator will... (read more)
32 days ago
3.5 Stars
deceivingly clever and entertaining "monster" movie. Written by John Sayles and starring Robert Forster, you have to at least check it out.
80 days ago
3.0 Stars
I dare say that this was a VALIANT effort on the parts of everyone involved. The film making is obviously compitant and actually comes off as trying to do something different, yet it doesn't really work due to how much it resembles Jaws. You get to... (read more)
94 days ago
1.5 Stars
A disaster movie that's a disaster of a movie. Surprise. Forster barely manages to keep his head above water.
129 days ago
3.0 Stars
A decent Jaws rip off that actually uses a gator in most of the shots. It has some decent gore, but for the most part is mindless.
130 days ago
3.0 Stars
Fun. I think the cast/crew was having fun too. One random shot where the heroes are climbing out of a manhole from the sewer, and an elderly man is crossing the street behind them, very slowly, with a walker. Bizarre? Yes. It makes you wonder what th... (read more)
135 days ago
2.5 Stars
This is what happens when you flush a baby Alligator down the toilet. It grows and comes back to bite you on the ass.
147 days ago
3.5 Stars
Scripted by John Sayles (yes the same man who wrote Lonestar and The Howling), this reactionary monster flick is thoroughly enjoyable and makes for a fun 90 minutes.

The gator effects are pretty convincing and and movie answers that long standing ur... (read more)
157 days ago
4.0 Stars
Robert Forster is totally my boy. And, it's about a giant flipping sewer 'gator. Some great chomping...I wish there were still horror movies of this goofiness that took themselves seriously.
163 days ago
4.0 Stars
One of the best Jaws ripoffs ever next to Piranha. Great kills, amusing, and no bullshit CGI. This is how movies should be made.

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