Parents (1989)

The director of this oddity is Bob Balaban who is far better known as an actor ("Gosford Park", "A Mighty Wind") and his screen persona is totally out of whack with this little horror.  All is not well in our all-American family comprising Dad (Randy Quaid), Mom (Mary Beth Hurt), and a 10-year old boy in his debut role.  It seems that they move around a lot and eat large quantities of very rare meat of strange shapes and sizes which you wouldn't find at your local butcher shop.  For some reason this upsets Junior!  While an interesting concept to impose cannibalism on a pastel '50's environment (with a super songtrack of the period), it's not all that well-made.  The child actor is no Lukas Haas and his mumblings were hard to catch, even if his terror was clear enough.