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the burbs | Year: 1989 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Joe Dante Actors/Actresses: - Tom Hanks - Bruce Dern - Carrie Fisher - Corey Feldman Suburban Paranoia is Halarious After hearing strange noises coming from the house next door, Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) becomes suspicious of his new neighbors. His best friend (Rick Ducommon) and a close neighbor (Bruce Dern) begin to investigate the disappearance of an old man (Gale Gordon) that lives down the street. They think the new neighbor (Henry Gibson), with the help of his two relatives, may have killed the old man and buried him somewhere on their property. Ricky (Corey Feldman), a teenager on the block, watches the antics of the men for entertainment and invites his friends to watch as well. There is never a dull moment in this movie and there is one laugh after another. Carrie Fisher, Wendy Schaal, and Cortney Gains also deliver great performances. Joe Dante directs this wonderful comedy about normal people becoming paranoid in the suburbs. This is one of those movies that you will remember and laugh about for years. Rick Ducommun=God! Rick Ducummon is fantastic in this movie! Don't get me wrong, Bruce Dern, Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Dick Miller, Henry Gibson, and Courtney Gains are all great too, but Duccumon so rarely gets a chance to shine. We've seen him as the guy in the manhole("Shut it down now!") in DIE HARD, he's the guy whose pool gets a car crashed into it in THE LAST BOYS SCOUT (plus he starred opposite Brian Bonsall(FAMILY TIES) in Disney's BLANK CHECK). He just is never given an opportunity like he has here and he's great! "The thermostat on a home furnace-is that supposed to go to 5000 degrees d'ya think?" and "My wife is home??!" amongst other classic lines are just pouring out of him here. I can't believe some people don't like this movie. At the very worst it's an innefectual, light comedy. At the very best(my end) it's a Hitchcock inspired, post-modern comic pastiche that also has Corey Feldman in it. This movie is a lot of fun. I've watched it a bunch and it only gets better. One of Tom Hanks later frenitic comedic performances. Dvd includes alternate ending which is nice to see. Sub-'Burbs While I found the humor of 'The 'Burbs' kinda cute and occasionally giggle-inducing, it wasn't really all that funny to me. Ya got Tom Hanks in the usual 'reluctant-hero-caught-in-the-middle-of-it-all' role he usually played back in the mid-to-late 80s, with his trademark expression of outraged incredulity poppin' up when he's been pushed just a bit too far by his odd neighbors. Throw in the quasi-psychotic weirdness of Bruce Dern's character, and the cool-dudeness of then-teen-heartthrob Corey Feldman, and you've got a little something that's fun to watch, but ends up well short of being a bona fide laugh riot. Which was pretty much par for the course for most of Hanks' 80s comedies following 'Bachelor Party'. Ah well, there's always 'Forrest Gump' if I ever feel the need to watch a truly funny Tom Hanks flick... 'Late Buy The Burbs at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Burbs Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Burbs This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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