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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302041064
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302041066
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 06, 1997
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 1991
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Simply put, the Applegates are your typical nuclear family who wants nothing more than to nuke the human race. Seems simple enough for a group of cockroaches from the bowels of the Amazon forest, but, alas, nothing is simple when Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, and Dabney Coleman round out a cast that discovers being human is more difficult than imagined. "The Applegates" was clever, funny, intelligent, poignant, and surprisingly shocking. From the beginning, with a group of volunteers trying to teach natives over the rumble of urban sprawl in the Amazon, to the very fun ending that makes you want to clap your hands and jump in excess, "The Applegates" represented an old style of cinema that is deeply missed in modern theaters. With a calling card that screams part "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and part the camp classic "Amazon Women and the Avocado Jungle of Death", it engulfs our social problems, our common idiosyncratic ways, and our hidden flaws with a pizzazz that cannot be ... Read More
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Normally any movie about giant insects instantly turns me off, however "Meet the Applegates" is in an entirely different category by itself. Imagine a family of giant mantis, who can disguise themselves as human, in a small american town on a mission to destroy a nuclear power plant to save the rainforest. However, they have to hide their identities, overcome capitalistic greed, avoid mind-altering substances, and not allow themselves to look anything other than "normal".
This is your standard wholesome little town. The local preacher is the voice of the people, and everyone meets in the town hall to determine how to handle an abnormal crisis. Sure they have quite a mob mentality, but they're good people who care about their families. I could never live in this wholesome american town, as they pride themselves too much on being "normal", even though there really is no way of defining "normal". In fact this wholesome town is so normal that it's ridiculous.
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Meet the Applegates (original title) shows just how consumer driven Americans are! Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll and don't forget the home shopping network. Can we really live without our credit cards? All these questions are answered and more by an unexpected source, a cockaroach! Or, should I say a family of them! They can live through a nuclear fallout but not commercialism in America! A must see for all camp movie fans. Please revieve this movie and put it on DVD so I can buy it!
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Good horror independent flick, was big in 1991 and then all of a sudden disappeared, i think because media home entertainment went out of business?? anyway it should be revived for a DVD release, i would purchase a copy of it on dvd!
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Although Michael Lehman and Denise di Novi's follow up to their brilliant satire Heathers is not as wicked, it is an equally bizarre slant on middle class American life.
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