Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher get Hamm-sandwiched into an international espionage plot when it’s revealed their new neighbors (Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot) are actually gainfully employed action spies. Try Keeping Up with the Joneses as it inspires this week’s gallery of 24 more horrible (or horribly exciting) neighbors!
NEIGHBORS (2014, 73%)
Seth Rogen and his young family engage in suburban war with Zac Efron and his fraternity after they move in next door. And in the sequel earlier this year, the two form a temporary alliance when a rowdy sorority moves in intending to throw iconoclastic ragers rebelling against the campus’ sexist policies.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997, 86%)
Obsessive-compulsive Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) about to shove his neighbor’s dog down the garbage chute.
TOY STORY (1995, 100%) Troublemaker Sid preps Buzz Lightyear for a trip to infinity and beyond.
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968, 99%) Nosy neighbor Minnie (Ruth Gordon) offers a homemade treat: chocolate mousse that may or may not be used to induce the birth of Satan’s son.
THE LOVELY BONES (2009, 31%) Hide yo’ kids: creepster George Harvey (Stanley Tucci) is sending out invitations to his underground den.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE (2008, 45%) An interracial married couple (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington) move into a new neighborhood and are subsequently menaced by their racist LAPD neighbor (Samuel L. Jackson).
JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996, 17%) Slimeball Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman) openly hits on the wife of his next-door neighbor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
DISTURBIA (2007, 69%) While under house arrest, Shia LaBeouf begins to suspect his neighbor (David Morse) is a serial killer.
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993, 93%) A married couple (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton) suspect that foul play has descended upon their apartment.
ARLINGTON ROAD (1999, 62%) Jeff Bridges begins to suspect his friendly new neighbors (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack) are using him for something sinister.
HOT FUZZ (2006, 91%) The townsfolk of rural Sandford go to unusual lengths to keep up their award-winning facade.
DENNIS THE MENACE (1993, 23%) H-e-e-e-y, Mr. Wilson! He’s terrorized by his neighbor’s son Dennis, who essentially embodies a flash mob of recycled Home Alone stunts.
PACIFIC HEIGHTS (1990, 43%) Michael Keaton moves into Pacific Heights without paying up and intentionally releases cockroaches in a bid to take over the entire apartment building.
CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989, 64%) Clark Griswold’s (Chevy Chase) yuppie neighbors may have been a pain, but let’s not let the guy who took out the town’s power off the hook.
REAR WINDOW (1954, 100%) James Stewart and Raymond Burr settle a friendly spat.
AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999, 88%) A retired Marine (Chris Cooper) is less than willing to put up with his neighbor’s (Kevin Spacey) mid-life crisis.
TOWELHEAD (2008, 49%) Aaron Eckhart plays a skeevy cul-de-sac dweller after a 13-year old Arab-American girl.
EXTRACT (2009, 63%) David Koechner plays an impossibly dense and nosy neighbor in Mike Judge’s factory comedy.
THE ‘BURBS (1989, 47%) Who me? Tom Hanks has suspicions that the Klopeks are amassing dead bodies in the back yard.
DUPLEX (2003, 35%) A young couple (Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore) move into their dream home, only to discover the elderly landlord upstairs watches TV at full volume all day meanwhile hosting brass band rehearsals.
MOVING (1988) As Richard Pryor’s neighbor, Randy Quaid plays an unstable Vietnam vet with a souped-up, deafening lawn mower.
NEIGHBORS (1981, 63%) A surreal comedy featuring Dan Aykroyd and Cathy Moriarity as an obnoxious couple, with John Belushi playing the straight man.
FRIGHT NIGHT (2011, 72%) Girls love vampires and Colin Farrell. But combined as your next-door neighbor? Maybe not so much…
BARTON FINK (1991, 91%) Look closely at the people living across the hall. The devil’s in the details.
