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Format: DVD

Apr 1999

Rated PG

Recording Mode: DTS Digital Surround

Closed Captioned

102 min.

Color

Extra Info: Widescreen

UPC: 025192052828
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Leading Role: Tom Hanks
Director: Joe Dante

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Movie Description
Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but average, Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson, who finally takes a much-needed week of vacation. However, Ray doesn't use the time to jet off to some exotic locale, there are no frolicsome adventures in his plans, all he wants is a week of mindless relaxation in his own comfortable suburban home. His wife Carol (Carrie Fisher) warns him that he's liable to go crazy from the boredom, but he refuses to listen. The nothingness finally does get to him, however, and he creates a little excitement for himself by spying on his neighbors - the Klopeks, a mysterious, oddball family that just moved in to a dilapidated home down the street. When the neighborhood grouch mysteriously disappears, Ray and a motley crew of other neighborhood crackpots begin to concoct wild theories about the strange, and perhaps murderous, goings on in the Klopek's creepy, old house. For one brief, shining moment their lives seem to have some meaning and purpose as Ray and his friends become consumed with the secrets of the bizarre family. Tom Hanks is hysterical as Ray, bring his own brand of boyish charm and zany slapstick comedy to the screen.

Credits
Cast:Tom Hanks
Director:Joe Dante
Producer:Larry Brezner, Michael Finnell

Synopsis
When Ray Peterson finally takes a long-needed week of vacation, he doesn't use the time to jet off to some exotic locale; there are no frolicsome adventures in his plans. All Ray wants is a week of mindless relaxation in his own comfortable suburban home. His wife warns him that he's liable to go crazy from the boredom, but he refuses to listen. The nothingness finally does get to him, however, and he creates a little excitement for himself by spying on his neighbors -- specifically the Klopeks, that mysterious, oddball family that just moved in down the street. Ray and a motley crew of other neighborhood crackpots begin to concoct wild theories about the strange, and perhaps murderous, goings on in the Klopeks' creepy, old house; and for one brief, shining moment their lives seem to have some meaning and purpose. Sadly, the magic doesn't last for long, and they soon find their imaginative conjecture buried under by the suffocating weight of mundane reality.

Film Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Letterbox 1.85
Single Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital 3.0 - English
Dolby Digital 3.0 - French
Additional Release Material:
Web Access
Theatrical Trailer
Production Notes
Parental Lock
Film Highlights
Cast/Crew Bios

Early in the film Dave Peterson (Corey Danziger) is eating breakfast and a box of Gremlins cereal can be seen on the kitchen counter, referencing the smash success of Dante's film.

Industry Reviews
"...[The] script is peppered with gems....Hanks does a fine impersonation of a regular guy on the verge of a nervous breakdown, while Dern adds another memorable psychotic to his résumé..."
Variety - Bril. (02/22/1989)


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