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Meet the Applegates is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Michael Lehmann released in USA on 1 february 1991 with Ed Begley Jr.
Meet the Applegates (1990)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 february 1991
Length 1h30
Directed by Michael Lehmann
OriginUSA
Themes Films about animals, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality, Films about insects, Comedy horror films
Rating55%
Meet the Applegates is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. It was filmed in 1989, but not released until 1991. It takes a dark, satirical look at the end of the world, nuclear holocausts, alienism and terrorism. It was filmed in Oshkosh and Neenah, Wisconsin. It has gained a cult following.
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The film starts off in a forest with a family being attacked by a family of huge Brazilian Cocorada. It then moves to a typical-looking family moving into a well-off suburban Ohio neighborhood. They are the bugs that were seen earlier, after they took on human form and met every "normality" standard from the magazine Family Bazaar. They moved to the suburbs after the husband, Richard, got a job at a nuclear power plant; he works there to one day cause an explosion that would rid the world of humans and let bugs be. But after a while they drift from its normalities — the son, Johnny, a straight-laced A student, begins listening to heavy metal and becomes a junkie; Richard and his wife, Jane, drift away from each other, he having an affair at work and she becoming attached to her credit card; lastly the daughter, Sally, becomes a pregnant lesbian after being raped by a jock from the high school.Actors
Ed Begley Jr.
(Richard P. Applegate)
Stockard Channing
(Jane Applegate)
Dabney Coleman
(Aunt Bea)
Robert Jayne
(Bobby Jacoby / Johnny Applegate)
Glenn Shadix
(Greg Samson)
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