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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Zach Galligan Phoebe Cates Hoyt Axton Keye Luke

Directors Joe Dante

Screenwriters Chris Columbus

Running Time 106 minutes

Gremlins
Don't feed after midnight...

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Plot
Billy's (Galligan) Dad brings him a gift from a business trip - a Mogwai. There are three rules to keeping the pet - never get it wet, never feed it after midnight, and never expose it to sunlight. Of course it's not ten minutes before they're broken, and all hell breaks loose in suburbia.

Verdict
Dante’s critters-run-amok-in-snowbound-Spielberg-suburbia satire takes the Christmas milieu of It’s A Wonderful Life and splatters it with cartoony carnage, anarchic comedy and a stripe of gleeful subversion a mile wide.


Reviewed by Caroline Westbrook

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