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Plot summary
Suburbicon is an all-white town, and in 1959 the Mayers, a Black family, move into it. The neighbors hold a meeting and circulate a petition to push them out. Next door, ten-year-old Nicky Lodge lives with his father Gardner and his mother Rose, who uses a wheelchair. Rose's twin sister Margaret is staying over when two men, Sloan and Louis, break into the house and tie the family up.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Suburbicon (2017)
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- The Coen brothers wrote the script for Suburbicon in 1986, soon after Blood Simple, but the film was made only decades later when George Clooney and Grant Heslov merged it with their separate historical drama about the Myers family of Levittown, Pennsylvania.
- The black family storyline in Suburbicon is loosely based on a 1957 incident in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where a black family moved into an all-white neighborhood and was met with racism and violence.
- Woody Harrelson said in September 2016 that he would not appear in Suburbicon because of scheduling conflicts, and in August 2017 it was reported that Josh Brolin had been cut from the final edit.
- Suburbicon's $2.8 million opening weekend was the lowest wide opening of George Clooney's directing career and of Matt Damon's career, and the 32nd worst-ever opening for a film in more than 2,000 theaters.
