Two Jurassic Park characters are father-daughter, and I guarantee that you never noticed

And no, we're not talking about the dinosaurs Leading up to the release of Disclosure Day, there was an online rumor that the movie was a secret sequel to Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The rumor gained such traction that Spielberg even addressed it in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, saying, “It is not a sequel in any way, shape, or form to Close Encounters.” But while the connection between Disclosure Day and Close Encounters has been debunked, earlier this week I managed to stumble upon a surprising connection between two other Steven Spielberg movies that kind of blew my mind. In the first Jurassic Park movie, the character of Gerry Harding (Gerald R. Molen) is the dinosaur veterinarian. He’s the guy the main characters meet near the sick Triceratops and who Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) briefly pairs off with afterward. We don’t see him after that, but it's generally accepted that he left the island on that same boat Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) was supposed to catch. In the first Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, we meet Sarah Harding (Juliane Moore), an animal behaviorist who is dating Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum). She's

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