The Boroughs is a slow-unwinding horror story set in an idyllic desert retirement community marketed as a place to have the time of your life. Beneath the facade, the community’s guardians conceal a dark and deadly secret and will stop at nothing to keep it hidden. A ragtag group of friends, brought together by circumstance, becomes the only force capable of uncovering what is really going on. The cast features veteran screen performers, including Alfred Molina as Sam, Denis O’Hare as Wally, Alfre Woodard and Clarke Peters as Judy and Art, and Geena Davis as Renee, alongside other characters tied to past events and relationships.
"Hawkins, Indiana, the Boroughs presents as an idyllic, tight-knit community, a place where, as the slogan plastered on every flat surface reminds us, “you’ll have the time of your life.” But underneath its facade is-would you believe it?-a dark and deadly secret that the people who guard it will stop at nothing to keep hidden. And a ragtag group of friends, in this case thrown together more by circumstance than inclination, are the only ones who can uncover the truth."
"They've already stuck their imprimatur on the Netflix series Something Bad Is Going to Happen and the animated spinoff Stranger Things: Tales From '85, and now comes The Boroughs, a slowly unwinding creeper set in a desert retirement community. Creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who created the Dark Crystal series Age of Resistance and co-wrote the animated movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, are aiming less for Spielberg than his derivatives, especially the movies produced under his Amblin banner in the 1980s."
"Think of it as Gremlins meets The Goonies, with a sizable helping of Cocoon.(That last one wasn't made by Amblin, but like The Boroughs, it plays as if it wishes it was.) There's also, inevitably, a lot of Stranger Things, if you aged up the characters about 60 years. Like Hawkins, Indiana, the Boroughs presents as an idyllic, tight-knit community, a place where, as the slogan plastered on every flat surface reminds us, “you'll have the time of your life.”"
"While the Duffers' own show relied on finding fresh faces, The Boroughs' cast is a dream team of screen veterans: Alfred Molina as Sam, a retired scientist who moves in after the death of his wife (Jane Kaczmarek, seen in flashbacks); Denis O'Hare as his quirky neighbor, Wally; Alfre Woodard and Clarke Peters as Judy and Art, a once idealistic couple whose open marriage has allowed them to drift further and further apart; and Geena Davis as Renee, who hasn't let age or circumstances"
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