The Little Rascals | |
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Directed by | Penelope Spheeris |
Screenplay by | Paul Guay Stephen Mazur Penelope Spheeris |
Story by | Paul Guay Stephen Mazur Penelope Spheeris Mike Scott Robert Wolterstorff |
Based on | Our Gang by Hal Roach |
Produced by | Bill Oakes Michael King Gerald R. Molen |
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Cinematography | Richard Bowen |
Edited by | Ross Albert Peter Teschner |
Music by | William Ross |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 82 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $67.3 million |
The Little Rascals is a 1994 American family comedy film produced by Amblin Entertainment, and released by Universal Pictures on August 5, 1994. The film is an adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang, a series of short films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s (many of which were broadcast on television as The Little Rascals) which centered on the adventures of a group of neighborhood children. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, who co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur, the film presents several of the Our Gang characters in an updated setting, featuring re-interpretations of several of the original shorts. It is the first collaboration by Guay and Mazur, whose subsequent comedies were Liar Liar and Heartbreakers.
A sequel, The Little Rascals Save the Day, also based on Our Gang, was released as a direct-to-video feature in 2014.