Movie Guide

Suburbicon (2017) – in cinemas from Friday, Dec 01

Directed by George Clooney and written by Clooney, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen and Grant Heslov, Suburbicon is a crime comedy that follows a mild-mannered father who must face his demons after a home invasion shakes his quaint neighborhood in 1959. The film stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac.

Suburbicon is a peaceful, family-centered, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals, an idyllic suburban community with affordable homes, the perfect place to raise a family. A simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves into the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However, as the patriarch Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once welcoming neighborhood’s dark underbelly, acts of unprecedented violence, paired with a gruesome death, will inevitably blemish Suburbicon’s picture-perfect facade. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices. This is Suburbicon. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?

More info on this movie can be found at www.imdb.com.