The Little Rascals (film)

The Little Rascals
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPenelope Spheeris
Screenplay byPaul Guay
Stephen Mazur
Penelope Spheeris
Story byPaul Guay
Stephen Mazur
Penelope Spheeris
Mike Scott
Robert Wolterstorff
Based onOur Gang
by Hal Roach
Produced byBill Oakes
Michael King
Gerald R. Molen
Starring
CinematographyRichard Bowen
Edited byRoss Albert
Peter Teschner
Music byWilliam Ross
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • August 5, 1994 (1994-08-05)
Running time
82 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "The Little Rascals". Blu-ray.com. Retrieved September 18, 2021.