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6,4 /10 (20 Votes)
1957 EN 105 min

Overview

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne'er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

Release date

30/10/1957

Votes

20

Popularity

0.5

Do You Really Know Your Neighbors?

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

105 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2023-04-01

⭐ 6

You can easily imagine the land of opportunity in the late 1950s with new family homes being built full of all the mod cons. Ideally for upwardly mobile couples and families. This film follows four such couples who live in their suburban utopia only to find that each of them have foibles that range from booze to infidelity, brutality to racism - indeed each of these pairings has something of the unsavoury about them which all comes out in the wash as we watch their lives unravel before us. For it's time, its quite specific about the single event that serves to focus the attention and force the…

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