Companion review for Top 10 Tom Hanks Films 1984 – 1989
A disaster movie that involves nations falling to their knees is epic, dramatic and sentimental; a disaster movie that involves two people moving into the house from hell is either nail-biting horror, or unadulterated, unsentimental hilarity; here, it is the latter.
This is eighties comedy at its best, a disaster film that doesn’t feature flag waving heroism or grandiose styling, but locates itself in the simple surroundings of a couple’s new home and watches as the disaster takes place – the …