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    Meet The Applegates (1989)

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    Director Michael Lehman’s follow-up to Heathers is a devastating and funny look at how modem life in America can ruin and devolve even the closest family, disguised as a science-fiction comedy.

    Richard P. Applegate (Ed Begley Jr), Jane Applegate (Stockard Channing) and their family of giant, garbage-eating Brazilian shapeshifting cockroaches arrive near Akron, Ohio, on an important mission and disguise themselves as a “typical” American family.

    Almost immediately, they are seduced by TV, drugs, heavy metal music, sex, and alcohol.

    The daughter Sally (Camille Cooper) becomes a bitter, pregnant lesbian (after being date-raped by an obnoxious jock neighbour), son Johnny (Bobby Jacoby) turns into a burned-out pothead, and mother Jane becomes a credit-card junkie and shoplifter. They forget their mission and all secretly spin cocoons around tasty humans.

    Meet The Applegates is a clever, bizarre movie, and the human-cockroach makeup and special effects are excellent.

    Co-stars Dabney Coleman in drag (a bad idea).

    Richard P. Applegate
    Ed Begley Jr.
    Jane Applegate
    Stockard Channing
    Johnny Applegate
    Bobby Jacoby
    Sally Applegate
    Camille Cooper
    Aunt Bea
    Dabney Coleman
    Greg Samson
    Glenn Shadix
    Opal Withers
    Susan Barnes
    Vince Sampson
    Adam Biesk
    Dottie
    Savannah Smith Boucher
    Sheriff Heidegger
    Roger Aaron Brown
    Nita Samson
    Lee Garlington
    Kevin
    Philip Arthur Ross
    Kenny
    Steven Robert Ross
    Rich Block
    Mark Bringelson
    Clem Shepherd
    Chuck Lafont

    Director
    Michael Lehmann

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