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Spaceballs
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Directed by	Mel Brooks
Produced by	Mel Brooks
Written by	Mel Brooks Thomas Meehan Ronny Graham
Starring	Bill Pullman John Candy Daphne Zuniga Rick Moranis Mel Brooks Dick Van Patten George Wyner Joan Rivers
Music by	John Morris
Cinematography	Nick McLean
Editing by	Conrad Buff IV
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
Release date(s)	June 24, 1987
Running time	96 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US $22,700,000 (estimated)
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Spaceballs is a 1987 science fiction parody film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks. It was released on June 24, 1987, and earned only modest returns, but it has gone on to become a cult classic on video.

Its plot and characters contain numerous parodies of elements from the original Star Wars trilogy and Star Trek in particular, as well as other popular science fiction films. The script was written by Mel Brooks in only six months, and was approved by George Lucas, as he was a big fan of Brooks's previous films.^[1] Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic was also involved in the special visual effects for the film. As of 2007, an animated sequel TV series is in preparation.