Review of The 'Burbs (1989) by Brittany M — 14 May 2008

Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) would like nothing better than to spend a quiet week's vacation in his suburban home, drinking beer and watching TV. But, spurred on by his two friends' spinning of boyish paranoid fantasies about their reclusive neighbors, the Klopeks, the usually down-to-earth Ray begins to suspect his idyllic neighborhood has been invaded by an evil force, to the point where he and his friends become psychotically nosey.

You see where this is going, and you see it from a mile off. Kudos to the Klopeks, for their evil ways are ably embodied by Henry Gibson, Courtney Gains, and Brother Theodore. Hanks is brilliant here, it's easy to see from his 80's work why he was only going to get even bigger in the 90's, if not necessarily better.