The 'Burbs
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- Tom Hanks
- Bruce Dern
- Carrie Fisher
- Rick Ducommun
- Corey Feldman
- Wendy Schaal
- Henry Gibson
- Theodore Gottlieb
- Courtney Gains
- Gale Gordon
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One of my favorite films of all time. Art's character is bar none my favorite comic performance. The ending "it's us" monologue is historic. The soundtrack, the neighborliness, it's all just so fun and wonderful.
Jim CummingsAug 1, 2023there is a sequence where satanists tie Tom Hanks to a BBQ grill… god i love 80s movies
ReeceAug 13, 2018Dante's slapstick Rear Window. Understand the objection to the ending—which on its surface undermines Hanks' righteous realization that suburban conformity is much darker and weirder than any strange outsider—but even if the voyeur element isn't as strong the same is true…
Josh Lewis - Jan 13, 2023
Rapidly zooming in and out on someone’s screaming face will guarantee to get a laugh out of me.
AdamFeb 24, 2024“Art!! Your wife is home! And your house is on fire!!” “My WIFE is home?!?” Joe Dante just knew how to make fantastic feel-good thrillers, man. Suburban monotony morphing into eclectic paranoia, with characters that actually feel like kooky longtime neighbors and a spooky…
Matt!Apr 6, 2018Mark Rumsfield: Klopek... what is that, Slavic? Reuben: NO. Mark Rumsfield: 'Bout a nine on the tension scale, Reub.
Luke Kane - Apr 12, 2021
That Ricky Butler sure knows how to throw a party.
Brian SaurSomewhere around the early 90s, Tom Hanks became really boring. He stopped making comedies and started making 'serious' films. As such, we missed out on him making more films like this and more films where we have to watch him talk to a sodding volleyball for the best…
🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝Jul 16, 2016A totally white middle-class enclave full of normal white people who had fought for the United States and come home to rest, people who had worked and retired, people who are still working hard, white people who are almost entirely male and whose sense of safety rests…
nathaxnne [goodbye]
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The 'Burbs begins promisingly, as if Joe Dante is going to yank a Steven Spielberg film into Blue Velvet depths. Once the premise is laid down, however, the film deflates and empties with alarming speed. [17 Feb 1989, p.88]
For a while, director Joe Dante spins some daft gags off the situation, and Hanks and Fisher deliver their droller lines with a deadpan sincerity that produces genuine unease. But it turns out that there isn't really much of a script here, and soon The 'Burbs has devolved into a slow build to the big anti-climax. [17 Feb 1989, p.10]