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 Spheeriswho also directedpresents several of the "Our Gang" characters in an updated setting, and features 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".