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Meet the Applegates

5.619901h 30mRMovieComedyFantasyHorror

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.

DirectorMichael Lehmann
WritersMichael Lehmann·Redbeard Simmons
ProducersDenise Di Novi·Christopher Webster

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Cast · Directed by Michael Lehmann

EJEd Begley Jr.
Ed Begley Jr.
Richard P. Applegate
SCStockard Channing
Stockard Channing
Jane Applegate
DCDabney Coleman
Dabney Coleman
Aunt Bea
RJRobert Jayne
Robert Jayne
Bobby Jacoby / Johnny Applegate
CCCamille Cooper
Camille Cooper
Sally Applegate
GSGlenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix
Greg Samson
SBSusan Barnes
Susan Barnes
Opal Withers
AB
Adam Biesk
Vince Sampson
SBSavannah Smith Boucher
Savannah Smith Boucher
Dottie
RBRoger Aaron Brown
Roger Aaron Brown
Sheriff Heidegger
LGLee Garlington
Lee Garlington
Nita Samson
MBMark Bringelson
Mark Bringelson
Rich Block

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Meet the Applegates hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around July 25, 1990. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.