Tom Hanks in 'The 'burbs'

[Super Grover]

Innerspace

He's the Cowboy. I don't know how many times I used to sit and watch that movie.

 

[Augustus]

I just love it when Hanks picks up the rolling bed and just throws himself and the bed into the ambulance...

 

[Kemaiku]

Awesome, awesome film. I have it on DVD, alas a vanilla release though

I think ours is the two disc edition here but yeah, great film.

 

[Christopher]

Interesting that a thread on The 'Burbs should start now, just days after the fire at the Universal backlot. I've been reading up on the backlot in response to that, and it turns out that The 'Burbs was filmed on the same suburban-street area (formerly called Colonial Street) that's now known as Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives. It was also used for Leave it to Beaver, The Munsters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and other productions over the decades. Some of its individual houses are still referred to by the names of the families that lived in them in The 'Burbs, or at least they were pre-DH. I imagine DH is causing a lot of names to be changed, just as the town-square area that was recently half-destroyed (for the third time in its history) was renamed Mockingbird Square after To Kill a Mockingbird and Courthouse Square after Back to the Future.

 

[Amasov]

I've never seen a full episode of Desperate Housewives, just clips here and there. I did catch a glimpse of the street the series takes place on and thought it looked awfully like the same street from The 'Burbs.