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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jun 29, 2019 8:02:36 GMT
What brought about this idea for a thread was the fact that the neighbours we currently have living next to us unfortunately elicit this sort of response from me most days...  But what about neighbours from the movies? Good ones, bad ones, or just simply ones who'd be described as a 'weird family'... Just like the two families (the Szalinskis and the Thompsons) in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) described each other at different points in the film. As the parents (from left to right): Diane Szalinski (Marcia Strassman), Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis), Mae Thompson (Kristine Sutherland) and Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Sr. (Matt Frewer).  As their kids (from left to right): Ronald 'Ron' Thompson (Jared Rushton), Nick Szalinski (Robert Oliveri), Amy Szalinski (Amy O'Neill) and Russell 'Russ' Thompson, Jr. (Thomas Wilson Brown).  After their ordeal, they all come together at the end.  Then there's Mr. Wilson (Walter Matthau) and his constant tormentor, Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble), from the 1993 film Dennis the Menace.  And lastly, for a change, two neighbours who didn't start off disliking each other - Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) from 2002's Spider-Man.  |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 29, 2019 15:51:01 GMT
 Neighbours 1981, sadly the worst movie both comedy giants did, and Belushi's last.  The pastell coloured nosy neighbours of Edward Scissorhands 1990  The 'burbs 1989, Mr Mooney, the folly of many Lucy episodes, Played an angry neighbour who let his poodle shit anywhere. The Great Gale Gardon!  To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, don't mess wth the son of the next house, he might turn out to be Robert Duvall.
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Post by spiderwort on Jun 29, 2019 22:30:25 GMT
I can only think of one right now ( teleadm beat me to To Kill a Mockingbird). Anyway, in The L-Shaped Room (1962) Leslie Caron and Brock Peters share adjacent apartments in a boarding house in London. And from time to time they talk to each other through the walls. In some way this interaction provides an intimacy and tenderness they are not able to share face to face. I can't find any pix of that, but here's one of Caron, Peters, and Tom Bell, Caron's love interest. It's a beautiful and very moving motion picture, which I saw when it was first released, but loved it even more when I saw it again recently. And I think this may be Brock Peters' side of a conversation with Caron on the other side of the wall. He's suffering in the scene.
Will ponder this subject some more.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 30, 2019 0:51:55 GMT
A lot of interesting neighbors lived in the apartments facing Jimmy Stewart's rear window in that movie (can't remember the title).
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 30, 2019 1:24:40 GMT
American Beauty  |
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 30, 2019 1:37:25 GMT
In A Christmas Story, Ralphie's old man had to put up with the Bumpuses next door and their pack of hungry dogs.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 30, 2019 6:49:07 GMT
Newlywed city slickers Betty and Bob McDonald (Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray) have moved to the backwoods for a change of life in the delightful romantic comedy The Egg and I (1947). They are given plenty of neighbourly advice from the eccentric country folk the Kettles a family of fifteen. Ma offers sound advice while never having done a hard days work in his life Pa Kettle (Percy Kilbride) is always full of ideas and borrows as much resouces as he can from easy going neighbour Bob. So popular were the bumpkin neighbours that they headlined in their own Ma and Pa Kettle Kettle series of B pictures, which ran until the mid 50s.  |
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jun 30, 2019 7:05:32 GMT
This chap had the sort of neighbours I'd like....although I could do without all the visitors he had to his flat....
Dr & Mrs Dreyfus: Useful in a crisis, medically qualified, generous with chicken soup and moral guidance, not too keen on "swingers" but who will invite me to parties with a guest list including "two brain surgeons, an ear nose and throat specialist, a proctologist and three nurses from Bellevue".... my kind of people...    
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine ,Jack Kruschen & Naomi Stevens in Billy Wilder's sublime THE APARTMENT - as well as setting the gold standard for cinematic neighbourliness, it is an object lesson in effectively balancing the comedic and the dramatic, and in treating its audience as adults.
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 30, 2019 7:49:56 GMT
ROSEMARY'S BABY Rosemary and Guy couldn't be happier to meet their new neighbors, Minnie and Roman. They seem like the nicest people.  |
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Post by Sulla on Jun 30, 2019 12:03:04 GMT
Peter and Lawrence in Office Space (1999).
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 30, 2019 19:46:40 GMT
Oooops! I'm sorry. That's a Nabors. |
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 2, 2019 5:00:15 GMT
I forgot to include in my first post these neigbours from the movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)... The Griswolds - Clark, Ellen, Audrey and Rusty (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki).  And the Chesters - Todd and Margo (Nicholas Guest and Julia Louis-Dreyfus).  |
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Post by teleadm on Jul 2, 2019 17:35:00 GMT
 Barefoot in the Park 1967, newlyweds Redford and Fonda meets their strange neighbour who lives in a loft apartment above theirs, played by old charmer Charles Boyer.
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 2, 2019 20:30:25 GMT
The notable neighbor is played by Romy Schneider.   |
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 2, 2019 20:45:38 GMT
Tokin' up with Mrs Samsky in A Serious Man  |
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