<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $67.3 million </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . The film, with a screenplay by Paul Guay, Stephen Mazur, and Penelope Spheeris--who also directed--presents several of the Our Gang characters in an updated setting, and features re-interpretations of several of the original shorts . It was the first collaboration by Guay and Mazur, whose subsequent comedies were Liar Liar and Heartbreakers . </P> <P> A sequel, The Little Rascals Save the Day, was released as a direct - to - video feature in 2014 . </P>

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