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Release Date
Feb 17, 1989 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 27, 2003
• R2: 28 Jun 2004
Running Time
1 hour, 41 minutes
Country USA
Studio Imagine Entertainment, Rollins, Morra, Brezner Productions, Universal
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Other Titles
• The 'burbs
• Life in the Burbs (1989)
• Meine teuflischen Nachbarn (1989)
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Genre: Horror, Comedy, Family, Cannibals, Black Comedy, Suspense, Occult, Satire, Investigation, Devil
Tagline: A comedy about one nice guy who gets pushed too far.
Plot: Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but average, Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson, who finally takes a much-needed week of vacation. However, Ray doesn't use the time to jet off to some exotic locale, there are no frolicsome adventures in his plans, all he wants is a week of mindless relaxation in his own comfortable suburban home. His wife Carol (Carrie Fisher) warns him that he's liable to go crazy from the boredom, but he refuses to listen. The nothingness finally does get to him, however, and he creates a little excitement for himself by spying on his neighbors - the Klopeks, a mysterious, oddball family that just moved in to a dilapidated home down the street. When the neighborhood grouch mysteriously disappears, Ray and a motley crew of other neighborhood crackpots begin to concoct wild theories about the strange, and perhaps murderous, goings on in the Klopek's creepy, old house. For one brief, shining moment their lives seem to have some meaning and purpose as Ray and his friends become consumed with the secrets of the bizarre family. Tom Hanks is hysterical as Ray, bring his own brand of boyish charm and zany slapstick comedy to the
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 For a horror movie I'm telling you this movie isn't a hard hitting splatter fest I'm used to viewing. But this movie has the x factor I'm looking for on these cold lonely nights, funny, warm and a little to do with "family horror".  -- (terrorwatch.net)
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| Directed by |
Joe Dante
Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace |
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| Written by |
Dana Olsen
George of the Jungle, It Came from Hollywood, Going Berserk |
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| Cast |
Tom Hanks
Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile |
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 | Carrie Fisher
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, Star Wars |
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 | Robert Picardo
Star Trek: First Contact, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace |
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