The Applegates (1991)
- Starring:
- Ed Begley, Jr., Stockard Channing, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Lehmann
Synopsis of The Applegates
The Applegates is the video title for the darkly satirical comedy Meet the Applegates. The titular family, for all intents and purposes human beings, are actually a clan of giant Brazilian Cocorada bugs. Paterfamilias Dick Applegate (Ed Begley Jr.) takes a job with an Ohio nuclear power plant, with the intention of triggering an explosion, thereby exterminating all humankind and allowing the bugs to live in safety. Alas, every one of the Applegates falls victim to assimilation: Dick becomes a typical suburban philanderer, his wife Jane (Stockard Channing) succumbs to the seductions of the credit card, and the Applegate kids transform into obnoxious mall-cruising teens. By the time the Applegates' Aunt Bea (Dabney Coleman) links up with them to supervise the nuclear explosion, the family considers Auntie a nuisance and plots a fitting demise for her. Director Michael Lehmann had previously skewered upper-middle class values in Heathers; completed in 1989, Meet the Applegates buzzed into local cineplexes in 1991. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Applegates
- Ed Begley, Jr. - Dick Applegate
- Cami Cooper - Sally Applegate
- Dabney Coleman - Aunt Bea
- Adam Biesk - Vince Samson
- Savannah Smith Boucher - Dottie
- Steven Robert Ross - Kenny
- Chuck La Font
- Mark Roberts - Screaming Guard in Plant
- Julie Selzer
- Sherry Narens - Relative #1 (Hector)
- John Escobar - Jorge
- Sherrie Wills - Peace Corps Volunteer
- Bradley Mott - Pastor Cooter
- Joe Liss - Customs Official
- Mark Bringelson - Rich Block
- Stockard Channing - Jane Applegate
- Bobby Jacoby - Johnny Applegate
- Glenn Shadix - Greg Samson
- Roger Aaron Brown - Sheriff Heidegger
- Philip Arthur Ross - Kevin
- Susan Barnes - Opal Withers
- Meg Weldon - Courtney
- Rick Snyder - Bank Officer
- Sally Dennison
- Lisa Sutton - Pregnant Woman
- Tony Cecere - Banana Boat Helmsman
- Jessica Schwartz - Monica
- Les Podewell - Mr. Goodpastor
- Lee Garlington - Nita Sampson
- Mindy Suzanne Bell - Coach Himler
- Director(s):
- Michael Lehmann
- Writer(s):
- Michael Lehmann, Redbeard Simmons
- Producer(s):
- Steve White, Christopher Webster, Denise Di Novi
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