Theodore Rex

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For the biography of United States President Theodore Roosevelt, see Theodore Rex (book).

Theodore Rex was a movie released in 1995 starring Whoopi Goldberg. The film is set in a world where humans and human-sized, genetically-engineered dinosaurs co-exist. Goldberg stars as a human police detective assigned to investigate a "dinocide" (the murder of a dinosaur) and is forced to enlist the aid of Theodore, a civilian Tyrannosaurus rex and possible eye-witness.

Goldberg attempted to withdraw from the project but was ultimately forced to participate after legal action against her was initiated.

The film was originally supposed to be given a theatrical release, but the finished result of the film was so bad that the film was released direct-to-video instead, making the film the most expensive direct-to-video movie ever made at the time.

Richard Gilbert Abramson produced the film.