Meet the Applegates
A new species of comedy
1990 · 1h 30m · R
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Directed by
Michael Lehmann
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Meet the Applegates
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Lehmann Director
- Ed Begley Jr. as Richard P. Applegate
- Stockard Channing as Jane Applegate
- Dabney Coleman as Aunt Bea
- Robert Jayne as Bobby Jacoby / Johnny Applegate
- Camille Cooper as Sally Applegate
- Glenn Shadix as Greg Samson
- Susan Barnes as Opal Withers
- Adam Biesk as Vince Sampson
- Savannah Smith Boucher as Dottie
- Roger Aaron Brown as Sheriff Heidegger
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