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Alligator is a 1980 horror/comedy film, directed by Lewis Teague with a screenplay by John Sayles. It stars Robert Forster, Robin Riker and Michael V. Gazzo.

Synopsis

The film opens with a teenaged girl purchasing a baby alligator while on vacation with her family at a tourist trap in Florida. After the family returns home to Chicago, the alligator (named "Ramone" by the girl) is promptly flushed down the family's toilet by the her surly father, and ends up in the city's sewers. Locate vendors on our directories. Several years go by, during which the alligator not only survives, but eventually feeds on covertly-discarded pet-corpses which are spiked with an experimental growth formula, causing it to grow into a behemoth with an almost impenetrable hide.

The alligator begins picking off humans in the sewer, and the resulting flow of body parts draws in world-weary Chicago policeman David Madison (Forster) who, after a horribly botched case in St. Louis, has gained a reputation for being lethally unlucky for his assigned partners. As Madison works on this new case, his boss Chief Clark (Gazzo) brings him into contact with reptile expert Marisa Kendall (Riker), who years earlier was the girl who bought the alligator. The two of them edge into a prickly romantic relationship, and during a visit to Kendall's house, Madison bonds with her motormouthed mother.