Parents

Parents

  • Director: Bob Balaban
  • Countries of origin: Canada, United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: January 27, 1989
  • Sound mix: Dolby Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Pfui Teufel! - Daddy ist ein Kannibale
  • "Parents" is a feature film directed by Bob Balaban and starring Randy Quaid and Wayne Robson.
    The film fifties as the background, tells the story of a children approach their parents with ulterior doubt, get to eat meat every day, and feel the truth hidden in the basement in the story. 

    Details

    • Release date January 27, 1989
    • Filming locations Kelly Gulch - 1801 N. Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Topanga, California, USA
    • Production companies Great American Films Limited Partnership, Vestron Pictures

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $870,532

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $277,952

    Gross worldwide

    $870,532

    Movie reviews

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    • By Selina 2022-11-20 19:12:56

      Instant thoughts

      In the movie of 1989, I didn't see too many views on IMDB, so it was low cost, small production, and small audience.

      Disadvantages

      a. The plot of

      this movie can be described as calm from beginning to end. I started watching it at about one noon. After watching it for 20 minutes, I fell asleep and woke up and then watched it. I saw that it was finished after four o'clock. Curves are always more beautiful than straight lines. Although some people hate the endless...

    • By Llewellyn 2022-10-04 00:53:35

      I still don't understand your humor

      Well, I admit that I don't understand the black humor of that era, and I can see it in the mist from beginning to end.

          The whole film is like a dream. It seems to say that a little boy is a vegetarian. He feels terrible and disgusting when he sees the meat. When he sees his parents having sex, he can think of his mother’s lipstick as if two people are eating bloody lipstick. Rou, also fantasizes that his parents are doing some ulterior things every day, and he is full of hostility...

    • By Elmer 2022-05-12 12:22:48

      What I care about is the infatuation in his eyes when he looks at his mother

      This is just a trick, like a short Gothic novel that you used to relax in class when you were a kid, and this story is undoubtedly a typical Gothic novel. When the suspense was revealed, everyone had already guessed the answer to eighty or nine points, so brother The gimmick of special novels is different from detective novels. What really gives readers the pleasure of reading is those long, calm, and sometimes nervous, subjective mental statements that make people unable to bear to skip a few...

    • By Jamaal 2022-05-12 11:52:47

      Straight and homo

      This is a horror film with a child-oriented perspective, portraying the tense relationship with parents. At the same time, the rise is also a sociologically meaningful story about how aliens resist assimilation and survive.

      The main line of the story is very simple. Michael, who doesn't like meat, moved to a new home with his parents and started a new life. During the period, his father always fed Michael meat, but he didn't want to eat it at all, because he...

    • By Hollie 2022-05-12 11:09:38

      [Film Review] Parents (1989)

      Thrusting audience into America's '50s suburbia of contentment, where behind the closed doors, inconceivable horrors lurk within a perfect nuclear family, actor-turned-director Bob Balaban's first directorial effort PARENTS is a black comedy/horror melange that walks a tight rope in balancing the tonal shifts, and it is satisfactorily effective.

      Displaced by his family's recent move, 10-year-old Michael Laemie (Madorsky) is a gawky kid who inclines to keep...

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    • By Matilde 2023-09-26 01:29:51

      The plot is basically chaotic, and the atmosphere of suspense and curiosity can be regarded as gripping. Just don't know who said it was a comedy! It's a horror movie! A complete horror...

    • By Opal 2023-09-24 11:54:22

      If the dream is the place where the unconscious appears, and the unconscious is the result of being repressed by the subject, then the unconscious or the dream is no longer an illusory illusion, on the contrary, it (dream) is a reflection of a certain reality. In addition, the boy sees the sex scene of his parents, which is incomprehensible and unknowable in the boy's world and eyes, just like the cannibal parents, and these two unknowables blend in the boy's mind, and in the dream Repeating...

    • By Magnus 2023-09-17 00:52:00

      If the imagination of the ending as a boy becomes a model of child psychoanalysis, the fear of parental sex and meat is projected by expressionist techniques to show the boy’s dreams and psychology. The resistance to the father and the appearance of the father as the perpetrator can also be regarded as the appearance of the image. The end of the sexology endorsement for Freud is too vaguely processed. Close-ups of swinging hockey sticks and baseball sticks are seriously misleading. The...

    • By Alexys 2023-09-13 04:28:28

      2600, it turns out that there are only a few dozen minutes left at the end. It is more inclined that this story is just a fantasy of a little boy facing the constant moving house and the relationship between his family and his parents. The overall performance is also very psychedelic in the 1950s. Bob Barra The director of Ban Dang has quite an idea.

    • By Renee 2023-09-10 13:07:03

      Childhood...

    Movie plot

    This black comedy is set in the 1950s. The story revolves around a child who suspects that his parents use ulterior ways to obtain the meat they eat every day, and feel that the truth is hidden in the basement. 
    The film revolves around a seemingly welcoming family of three. The eccentric little boy Mike always has a lot of bloody hallucinations. The strange behavior attracts the attention of the school's psychological counselor....
    more about Parents Movie plot

    Movie quotes

    • Nick Laemle: Michael, are you ready to behave? I thought I tell you a little story. Want to hear a story. I tell you a little story and I want you to shut up until I'm finished.

      Michael Laemle: [Tied to a chair by his father] You eat people.

      Nick Laemle: I've been watching you, Michael. You're an outsider, you're not like them. You're like us.

      Michael Laemle: I don't love you any more.

      Lily Laemle: Yes you do.

      Nick Laemle: We're bound for life, no matter how much you hate us.

      Nick Laemle: [as he slowly unties Michael] I'm untying, and when you're free. You can sit down with us an eat, or could run outside and shout your little secret to the world. And you know what they'll do, Michael hmm? They'll come here and they'll burn us. Is that what you want, you want to see them burn your parents?

      Lily Laemle: Mint jelly?

    • Lab Attendant: I have here an opportunity

      [holds out a pen to Michael]

      Lab Attendant: this pen is made of chemicals, but if I took these same chemicals and recombined them, I could make an automobile, or an electric light! The whole world is made of chemicals Micheal, you can make anything! And if you're smart... you'll make opportunities.

    • Nick Laemle: Kids! Who made the little bastards.