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  1. The Love Bug is a 1997 American adventure comedy television film directed by Peyton Reed and written by Ryan Rowe. The fifth installment in the Herbie film series, the film is part remake and part sequel, in that the events of the original 1968 The Love Bug film are repeated while the storyline plots to follow Herbie Goes Bananas. It premiered on ABC in the anthology television series The Wonderful World of Disney on November 30, 1997. The film stars Bruce Campbell and includes a special appearance by Dean Jones, star of the original The Love Bug, tying it to the previous films, while introducing an evil, black Volkswagen Beetle named Horace, the Hate Bug, giving the film a much darker tone than the other films.
    Release dateNovember 30, 1997 (USA)
    Content ratingTV-G
    GenreAdventure · Comedy · Family · Fantasy
    Directed byPeyton Reed
    Plot

    The narrator, Jim Douglas, tells the story of Herbie the Volkswagen Beetle, and their adventures together. Cutting to the present-day, Herbie is now owned by an egotistic race car driver and car dealer named Simon Moo… See more

    Cast

    Bruce Campbell as Hank Cooper
    John Hannah as Simon Moore III
    Alexandra Wentworth as Alex Davis
    Kevin J. O'Connor as Roddy Martel… See more

    Home media

    The film was released on VHS format throughout the United States and Canada. So far, it is the only film of the Herbie franchise to not be publicly released on DVD or Blu-Ray. See more

     
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