Suburbicon (2017)
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A mild-mannered father must navigate a web of insurance fraud and domestic secrets after a home invasion in a 1950s all-white neighborhood.
The story
In the late spring of 1959, the peaceful, all-white neighborhood of Suburbicon is shaken by the arrival of the black Mayers family. Gardner Lodge, a seemingly mild-mannered family man, lives in Suburbicon with his paraplegic wife, Rose, and their son, Nicky. After a home invasion leaves Rose unconscious, her identical twin sister, Margaret, moves in to help care for Nicky. However, Margaret begins to transform herself into Rose. As tensions rise between the residents and their new neighbors, a charismatic insurance agent begins to investigate the family's life insurance claim, putting Gardner and Margaret's secrets at risk.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 1959, the all-white neighborhood of Suburbicon is disrupted by the arrival of the Mayers family. Gardner Lodge, a mild-mannered man, lives with his paraplegic wife Rose and son Nicky. Following a home invasion by robbers Sloan and Louis, Rose is left unconscious. Her twin sister Margaret moves in, pretending to be Rose. When the robbers return demanding money for Rose's death, Gardner and Margaret attempt to hide their involvement in an insurance fraud scheme. An insurance investigator, Bud Cooper, begins to suspect them, leading Gardner and Margaret to murder him. Meanwhile, a riot breaks out at the Mayers' home. During the chaos, Margaret is killed by Louis, who is then killed by Nicky's Uncle Mitch. Sloan is killed by a fire truck. Gardner finds Nicky in a closet and offers him a choice: flee to Aruba with the insurance money or die. The next morning, Gardner is found dead from a poisoned sandwich, while Nicky goes outside to play with the Mayers' son, Andy, as the community cleans up the aftermath of the riot.
- First release year
- 2017
- Runtime (minutes)
- 105
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- George Clooney
- Writers
- Joel Coen · writer; Ethan Coen · writer; George Clooney · writer; Grant Heslov · writer
- Cast and characters
- Matt Damon · Gardner Lodge; Julianne Moore · Rose (Gardner's wife) and Margaret, identical twin sisters; Noah Jupe · Nicky Lodge, Gardner and Rose's son; Oscar Isaac · Bud Cooper, an insurance claims investigator; Glenn Fleshler · Ira Sloan, a hitman; Alex Hassell · Louis, Sloan's partner; Gary Basaraba · Uncle Mitch, Rose and Margaret's brother; James Handy · Mayor Billings
- Genres
- black comedy; crime; thriller
- Themes
- racism; insurance fraud; domestic secrets; social inequality; siblicide; uxoricide
- Tone and mood
- black comedy; satirical; tense; dark
- Premise and plot tags
- social satire; racial commentary; murder mystery; historical drama
- Source material / true-story basis
- A 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where a black family moved into an all-white neighborhood, leading to racism and violence.
- Content notes
- murder
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, earning $12.8 million against its $25 million budget.
- Production trivia
- The Coen brothers originally wrote the script in 1986.; The film combines two previously unrelated scripts: a crime film by the Coens and a historical drama by Clooney and Heslov.; The film began filming in Fullerton, California, in October 2016.
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