The 'Burbs
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He's a man of peace in a savage land... Suburbia.
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
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Somewhere 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 part of 2 hours or doing a bad Alec Guinness impression.
Okay, that is been gravely unfair to Hanks and of course he HAS made or been a part of some great films in the 23 years since the release of The 'Burbs. But I can't be the only one who STILL misses the days when you saw his name on a film poster or box and you knew you were in…
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I had forgotten just how funny this actually is...
Back when Tom Hanks was a likeable 'everyman' and before he ruined everything he is in! Although this film is carried more by Art and Bruce Derns Lt. Rumsfeld!
Dern is hilarious...especially when he interacts with the Klopeks...the grin on his face when he hands over the dropped brownies makes me chuckle all on its own!Plus his wife is smoking hot, even despite the big 80s hair!!
The not too far fetched storyline about nosey neighbours combines one liners, a tinge of darkness and even some slapstick. Art being electrocuted while breaking into the Klopeks house still gets a bellylaugh out of me.
They don't make them like this anymore.
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Tom Hanks stars as Ray Peterson in this hilarious 80's comedy classic. Ray is on holiday from work and to the annoyance of his wife decides to spend his vacation investigating the rather odd goings on of his creepy new next door neighbours: The Clopeks. It's hilarious throughout and the characters are all nothing short of superb - from Rick Ducommun's "Art Weingartner", the childish gossip-mongering buffoon, to Bruce Dern's "Rumsfield", the paranoid ex Army, flag flying Lieutenant. It really is a neighbourhood full of quirky and interesting characters that fill this film with top class comedy situations, both verbal and physical - I adore the scene towards the beginning of the film where Art is eating all the food…
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The 'Burbs tells the story of a small group of neighbors in the suburbs that are convinced that the shady new family that have moved into their neighborhood, The Klopek's are not only up to no good to say the very least.
Tom Hanks stars in this movie and man I have to say as much as I love Tom Hanks the dramatic actor I love Tom Hanks the comedian just as much. Hanks is just fantastic in this movie and although he has gotten to the point where it seems like he will only do serious movies and dramatic roles these days I would love to see him go back to his roots and star in a new comedy,…
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Tom Hanks stars as Ray Peterson in this hilarious 80's comedy classic. Ray is on holiday from work and to the annoyance of his wife decides to spend his vacation investigating the rather odd goings on of his creepy new next door neighbours: The Clopeks. It's hilarious throughout and the characters are all nothing short of superb - from Rick Ducommun's "Art Weingartner", the childish gossip-mongering buffoon, to Bruce Dern's "Rumsfield", the paranoid ex Army, flag flying Lieutenant. It really is a neighbourhood full of quirky and interesting characters that fill this film with top class comedy situations, both verbal and physical - I adore the scene towards the beginning of the film where Art is eating all the food…
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Everyone wants to be Mr Rumsfield, but really you are just fucking, Art.
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From director Joe Dante comes this quirky, black comedy looking at what really goes on in a seemingly perfect American cul-de-sac in the suburbs.
When a mysterious, creepy family, The Klopeks, arrive on Mayfield Place, neighbours Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks), slob Art Weingarter (Rick Ducommun), ex-Special Forces leiutenant Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern) and radical teenager Ricky Butler (Corey Feldman) join forces, much to their partners frustration, to investigate the family as they suspect the dissapearence of a local resident is down to the Klopeks, and that ritual killings and sadistic practices in the basement are involved.
It's good fun, creepy in places and something everyone in a close community can suspect of new faces. What secrets do they hide? How…
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While watching this movie, and ONLY while watching this movie, I kind of want to move to suburban America.
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I eff-ing LOVE this movie. It's 100% original and walks the suspense/comedy line very deftly. Tom Hanks and Bruce Dern are hysterical; hell, even Corey Feldman shines.
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Tom Hanks needs to makes comedies again
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Tom Hanks dos anos 80 quebrava tudo. O cara era demais. E esse filme carrega toda a inocência da época, toda a leveza. Ótima diversão! E a trilha sonora é demais!
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I had forgotten just how funny this actually is...
Back when Tom Hanks was a likeable 'everyman' and before he ruined everything he is in! Although this film is carried more by Art and Bruce Derns Lt. Rumsfeld!
Dern is hilarious...especially when he interacts with the Klopeks...the grin on his face when he hands over the dropped brownies makes me chuckle all on its own!Plus his wife is smoking hot, even despite the big 80s hair!!
The not too far fetched storyline about nosey neighbours combines one liners, a tinge of darkness and even some slapstick. Art being electrocuted while breaking into the Klopeks house still gets a bellylaugh out of me.
They don't make them like this anymore.
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Watched this many times as a kid, did not know then that it was basically REAR WINDOW. Except instead of being afraid of getting married and finding himself trapped in a settled-down life, the hero longs for the quiet domesticity of his neighborhood and will go to extraordinary lengths to enforce it. That he turns out to be correct in his paranoia only makes it more disturbing.
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Tom Hanks stars as Ray Peterson in this hilarious 80's comedy classic. Ray is on holiday from work and to the annoyance of his wife decides to spend his vacation investigating the rather odd goings on of his creepy new next door neighbours: The Clopeks. It's hilarious throughout and the characters are all nothing short of superb - from Rick Ducommun's "Art Weingartner", the childish gossip-mongering buffoon, to Bruce Dern's "Rumsfield", the paranoid ex Army, flag flying Lieutenant. It really is a neighbourhood full of quirky and interesting characters that fill this film with top class comedy situations, both verbal and physical - I adore the scene towards the beginning of the film where Art is eating all the food…