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- 61/100 based on 8,196 votes
  • Released: 1989
  • Runtime: 82 mins
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  • Studio: Great American Films Limited Partnership
  • Genres: Comedy - Horror

Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Parents:

Randy Quaid
Mary Beth Hurt
Sandy Dennis
Bryan Madorsky
Juno Mills-Cockell
Kathryn Grody

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Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.

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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - 10/10 by Rick GroenIf the film finally fails to shock or surprise, it's nevertheless both imaginatively shot and wittily scripted, and strikes a nice balance between gentle parody and a queasy unease associated with bona fide genre suspense. Superior performances by Quaid, Hurt and Madorsky.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 9/10 by Ken HankePretty clever thriller that's about half as smart as it thinks it is.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Desson ThomsonParents is an impressive debut, and certainly the most provocative new release around town. You may leave this movie realizing how dark your childhood actually was. You may also leave a vegetarian.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Hal HinsonEven with its collapse, Parents is remarkably accomplished for a first outing. It's good enough to make you wish desperately that it had hung together.
Empire - 8/10 by Kim NewmanUnfairly neglected, perfectly creepy and disturbing suburban bizarro drama.
Boston Globe - 8/10 by Jay CarrPARENTS concentrates heavily on Michael's Freudian pathology; however, in its emphasis on psychological themes, the film loses sight of its story and becomes a confused collection of isolated vignettes. In adopting the boy's single-minded perspective, it prevents its characters from developing, so that Quaid hovers and glowers, Hurt giggles and flirts, and Madorsky lurks in dark recesses without variation from beginning to end.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumThe script runs out of ideas long before he does, and the film doesn't build dramatically as much as it could. But it's an impressive debut, full of bizarre imagination and visual flair—a must for fans of offbeat horror films.
Newsweek - 6/10 by David AnsenBecause it speaks to a terror that lurks deep within our memories, Parents has the potential to be a great horror film. But it never knows quite what to do with its inspiration. Is it a satire, a black comedy, or just plain horror? The right note is never found, and so the movie's scenes coexist uneasily with one another.
Los Angeles Times - 5/10 by Michael WilmingtonThe mark of a great horror comedy is the degree to which it delivers the two generally incompatible genres in equal measure. By that metric, the 1989 horror comedy Parents is an abject failure. Sure, the film has elements of both horror and comedy, but overall, the film falls firmly in the horror category. The laughs are few and far between, and once the dread starts creeping in, it intensifies until the final shot.
The New York Times - 5/10 by Caryn JamesThe satire of the 50's is more bland than biting, dependent on authentically garish costumes and sets. And when the horror-film scenes begin to intrude on normal life (what is hanging from the cellar ceiling, anyway?) Mr. Balaban can't make the dark elements seem comic enough to mesh with the rest of this nightmarish joke.

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