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In a picture-perfect 1950s suburb, a young boy begins to suspect that the meat his parents serve for dinner has a very disturbing origin.
Why watch: Balaban's directorial debut — a surrealist satire about suburban cannibalism set in 1958.
Cast
Randy Quaid as Nick Laemle
Mary Beth Hurt as Lily Laemle
Sandy Dennis as Millie Dew
Bryan Madorsky as Michael Laemle
Juno Mills-Cockell as Sheila Zellner
Kathryn Grody as Miss Judith Baxter
Deborah Rush as Mrs. Gladys Zellner
Graham Jarvis as Mr. Marty Zellner
Helen Carscallen as Grandmother
Warren Van Evera as Grandfather
Wayne Robson as Lab Attendant
Uriel Byfield as Little boy
Mariah Balaban as Little girl
Larry Palef as Announcer
Crew
Bob Balaban — Director
Christopher Hawthorne — Writer
Mitchell Cannold — Executive Producer
Bonnie Palef — Producer
Steven Reuther — Executive Producer
Risa Bramon Garcia — Casting
Billy Hopkins — Casting
Robin Vidgeon — Director of Photography
Ernest Day — Director of Photography
Bill Pankow — Editor
Andris Hausmanis — Art Direction
Arthur Rowsell — Costume Design
Jonathan Elias — Original Music Composer
Angelo Badalamenti — Original Music Composer
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