The Love Bug (1997 film)

The Love Bug
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Genre	Adventure Comedy
Based on	The Love Bug by Bill Walsh Don DaGradi Gordon Buford
Teleplay by	Ryan Rowe
Directed by	Peyton Reed
Starring	Bruce Campbell John Hannah Alexandra Wentworth Kevin J. O'Connor Dana Gould Harold Gould
Music by	Shirley Walker
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	George Zaloom Les Mayfield
Producers	Joan Van Horn Irwin Marcus
Cinematography	Russ Alsobrook
Editor	Chip Masamitsu
Running time	88 minutes
Production companies	Zaloom/Mayfield Productions Walt Disney Television
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 30, 1997 (1997-11-30)
Related
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
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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 (1980). It premiered on ABC in the anthology television series The Wonderful World of Disney on November 30, 1997.^[1] 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.^[2]

The film marks the first appearance of Herbie in fifteen years, following the television series Herbie, the Love Bug (1982), which ran for five episodes.

The Love Bug was followed by the theatrically released Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005).