Thursday, October 9, 2025

Tom Hanks Movie Review: ***^ 'Burbs 1989

 Here Tom Hanks stars as Ray Peterson and Carrie Fisher portrays his wife.  They interact with neighbors Mark Rumsfeld (Bruce Dern and his wife Bonnie (Wendy Schaal) and Art Weingartner (Rick Ducommun).  The whole neighborhood is in uproar over a new family that has moved into the neighborhood, and the don't care for their hard.  They rarely come out and suspicions are aroused.  And when another neighbor disappears without taking his dog, suspicions are even higher.  The three men, Art, Ray and Mark are on a mission to prove the neighbors are guilty of murder.  They dig in their basement, and hit a gas main which destroys the house.  They are in really big trouble, because the neighbor who disappeared comes back from having been in the hospital a few days; and the police are now involved.  Ray needs to go to the hospital after being in the explosion in the house, but the neighbor who is a doctor, Dr. Werner Klopek (Henry Gibson) plans to murder him.  In trying to get away they crash the car, and expose the skulls in the trunk.  

I liked this movie much more than The Money Pit, and Dragnet.

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