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The 'Burbs (1989)

PG Feb 17, 1989 Comedy, Horror, Thriller 1h 42m
User Score
68%
1,283 votes
Internet Movie Database
68%
Rotten Tomatoes
56%
Metacritic
4500%

He's a man of peace in a savage land... Suburbia.

Overview

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.

Joe Dante
Director
Dana Olsen
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks

Ray Peterson
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern

Lt. Mark Rumsfield
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher

Carol Peterson
Rick Ducommun
Rick Ducommun

Art Weingartner
Wendy Schaal
Wendy Schaal

Bonnie Rumsfield
Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman

Ricky Butler
Courtney Gains
Courtney Gains

Hans Klopek
Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson

Dr. Werner Klopek
Gale Gordon
Gale Gordon

Walter Seznick

Full Cast & Crew

Media

The 'Burbs (1989) Official Trailer - Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern Movie HD
The 'Burbs (1989) Official Trailer - Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern Movie HD
Trailer
Ti West on THE BURBS
Ti West on THE BURBS
Featurette
"The 'Burbs (1989)" Theatrical Trailer
"The 'Burbs (1989)" Theatrical Trailer
Trailer
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Reviews

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A review by kevin2019
Written on August 1, 2025

"The 'burbs" develops in the most outrageously crazy ways imaginable as three overly curious neighbours band together and pool their limited resources to investigate their mysterious new neighbours and they inadvertently wreck all manner of assorted havoc upon their neighbourhood in the process. This film has been superbly directed by Joe Dante and he uses both visual comedy along with some gothic visuals to establish a genuine sense of macabre menace. He is invaluably aided throughout by the exemplary work of composer Jerry Goldsmith. He effortlessly manages to create all the various mood changes with an amusing and often magnificently subtle musical score that is well up to his marvellous Academy Award winning standard....

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