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quote:hepcats9 wrote:

It was always more than a film, it represented a life away from our lives in northern england, some place we wanted to live when we grew up to be adults! We haven't lived the dream but we have grown to love the Burbs it's a community we would have loved to live in and by virtue of watching the movie so many times we kind of put ourselves there, picked a house to live in on the close! Blessings P

Funny, that's what I felt too. I even picked out this neighborhood where I live now (in real life) because it has that "Rumsfield neighborhood watch" to it... A street where people care about each other (and their yards, which they DO mow for the 800'th time) The only thing missing though is that no one here speaks American fluently like I do...so I may yet move to another house in USA or something, depends on getting a greencard though.

I just bought & read an early draft of the screenplay and there is a line that was cut from the film that would've been great.... it's when RAY is protesting going up to the cottage with Carol for for the first time and he says ".... God, I hate that place! There were teeth marks in the soap last time!"

Maybe it was the 1st of April in your neck of the woods, but your post was dated the 31st of March...

...if you DID actually get your hands on the draft, they congratulations.

Yeah, where did you buy that original script draft from? Is there a way to scan this and put in in the internet? Why not sharing it with us if this is a true story?

I would LOVE an original copy of the screenplay. Actually, I write screenplays in my spare time, and I keep meaning to write a version of The Burbs, just for fun. It would be a good excuse to watch the film another 10 times Plus, since it would be my version I shouldn't get into any trouble for posting it online!

I must do that soon.

Yup, also one of my thoughts to finally write some kind of screenplay for a sequel, trying to keep the light-hearted 80's comedy style. I'd like them all to go on vacation together to the dank wet cabins by the sea spying on their neighbours with the enormous heads...

Yup one of the best I was going to post this one lol

I'd rather chew broken glass lol Im glad to say i stole this line from this movie and still say it today.

There are many great lines to use in normal conversation. My favorite is to say, "That kid's a meatball."

P.S. I'm watching the 'Burbs right now.

Yup i'm watching it right now too part where Art says all i did was write i know what you've done thats it I didnt sign it or anything lol

The Burbs was on TV here in the UK a few days ago. I watched quite a bit of it but had to stop because they'd edited it so badly. I watched it later on DVD

So many of the best lines were ruined because they edited it for daytime TV.

When Rumsfield drops the brownies the line became "There go the brownies..."

When Ray tries to open the Klopek's back door with the credit card and it breaks, Art's line became "It was a store anyway." Anyone who hadn't seen the film before must have been really confused by that line. They just snip the bad word out and don't even replace it. Couldn't they have changed it to "It was a lousy store anyway"? or something similar?

Also cut was Rumsfield saying "God damn it" after standing in Queenie's dump, and Rumsfield saying he would staple Queenie's ass shut.

There were quite a few other cuts too. So annoying! People seeing it for the first time missed out on some of the best bits!

I remember seeing it on television when I was 14, ten years ago, and the things they did to it were terrible! It was on a 'family' channel too, so that was even worse.

That's why I'm glad I have the DVD. I can watch it any time I want in all of its unbridled glory.