The 'Burbs
He's a man of peace in a savage land... Suburbia.
Country
Budget
$18 000 000
Box office
$49 101 993
Director
Actors
Scenario
Dana Olsen
Producer
Larry Brezner, Michael Finnell, Ron Howard
Camera operator
Robert M. Stevens
Composer
Artist
James H. Spencer
Audition
Mike Fenton, Judy Taylor
Editing
Marshall Harvey
Whole Team (87)
Whole Team (87)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The Universal Pictures logo at the beginning of the film is an animated version of the logo as it appeared during the film's production.
- With the exception of the opening and closing shots of Earth from space, the entire action takes place on Mayfield Place, a dead-end street on the outskirts of a fictional town.
- Gail Gordon's (1906-1996) final role.
- The scene where Tom Hanks’ character lies on a stretcher and gets into the ambulance was invented by the actor on the spot.
- When Peterson's dog brings Art and Ray a femur, you can hear the trainer giving it commands with a whistle off-camera.
- Tom Hanks’ character watches "Race with the Devil" (Jack Starrett, 1975), "The Exorcist" (William Friedkin, 1973), and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" (Tobe Hooper, 1986) on television.
- The miniature poodle Queenie in the film is the same one that played the maniac’s dog in Jonathan Demme’s thriller "The Silence of the Lambs" (1990).
- The actors absolutely refused to step in dog excrement, and the props master, Mark Jameson, had to improvise. He mixed together dog food, bean gravy, and a few other ingredients.
- The original script called for Ray Peterson to be killed by Dr. Klopek. However, once Tom Hanks was cast as the lead, studio executives decided that his death would be unacceptable to audiences and ordered the ending to be rewritten. Several alternative endings were filmed – in some, the Klopeks were found with not only bones but also dead girls, and even dead garbage collectors.
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