Suburbicon

Parental Rating: R

Contains: Language    Violence    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens October 27, 2017

Runs 104 Minutes

In Suburbicon, everything is neat and clean and very white. When a black family moves into the neighborhood, cracks start to appear in this perfect subdivision. People begin to show their ugly sides. Meanwhile, this hardly registers with Gardner (Matt Damon) and his family. They have issues of their own. And, when henchmen invade their home, things really take a turn for the worse. Can Gardner and his family get out from under the thumb of the mob before the neighborhood is torn apart by riots over the new neighbors?

This movie is terrible. It is  almost like watching two movies - one about race relations in a 1950's white neighborhood and a crime drama involving murder and the mob. The only thing that ties them together is that they happen in the same neighborhood. The tone is so off. I was never sure whether to laugh or not. I did not like these characters. Julianne Moore was dippy and ditsy playing twin sisters (Matt Damon's wife and her sister). She was the one high point in her dual role. And, I guess Oscar Isaac was pretty good as an inquisitive insurance agent. Otherwise, I just thought this movie was a mess. Skip it!!!

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