
Meet the Applegates
A new species of comedy
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Release Date
11/8/1990Runtime
90 minsOverview
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$5,000,000Revenue
$485,772Homepage
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A surreal fish-out-of-water comedy where an insect colony masquerades as an American nuclear family, balancing genuine weirdness with satirical jabs at suburban conformity and Cold War paranoia. It's genuinely strange in a way that keeps you laughing and a little unnerved.
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Heads up

Ed Begley Jr.
Richard P. Applegate

Stockard Channing
Jane Applegate

Dabney Coleman
Aunt Bea

Robert Jayne
Bobby Jacoby / Johnny Applegate

Camille Cooper
Sally Applegate

Glenn Shadix
Greg Samson

Susan Barnes
Opal Withers
Adam Biesk
Vince Sampson

Savannah Smith Boucher
Dottie

Roger Aaron Brown
Sheriff Heidegger

Lee Garlington
Nita Samson

Mark Bringelson
Rich Block
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