Meet the Applegates is a 1991 black comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. It was filmed in 1989, but not released until 1991. The movie takes a dark, satirical look at the end of the world, nuclear holocausts, Alienism and Terrorism. Meet the Applegates was filmed in Oshkosh and Menasha, Wisconsin.
The movie takes place in a normal Ohio suburb after new neighbors (The Applegates) move in. The movie starts off in a forest with a family being at...
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Meet the Applegates is a 1991 black comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. It was filmed in 1989, but not released until 1991. The movie takes a dark, satirical look at the end of the world, nuclear holocausts, Alienism and Terrorism. Meet the Applegates was filmed in Oshkosh and Menasha, Wisconsin.
The movie takes place in a normal Ohio suburb after new neighbors (The Applegates) move in. The movie starts off in a forest with a family being attacked by a family of huge Brazilian Cocorada bugs. It then moves to a typical looking family moving into a well-off neighborhood. The family is the bugs that were seen earlier in the film—they took on human form and met every "normality" standard from the magazine Family Bazaar. They moved to the suburbs after the husband Dick got a job at a nuclear power plant; he works there to one day cause an explosion that would rid the world of humans and let bugs be. But after a while the family drifts from its normalities—the son, a drug free well-off...
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