Keeping Up with the Joneses Page #2

Synopsis: A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
Genre: Action, Comedy
Director(s): Greg Mottola
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
34
Rotten Tomatoes:
20%
PG-13
Year:
2016
105 min
$14,896,798
Website
1,785 Views


I hooked up with Sharada.

You what?

You hooked up with Sharada Ganjali?

I'll kill you!

Oren, this is no way

to settle a workplace dispute!

Sharon, call security!

Hiya, Jeff!

-Karen.

-Hey, honey!

Hey, darling.

Still spying on the neighbors?

Hi, there.

Hello.

You must be Jeff.

I'm Tim. This is my wife, Natalie.

We're the Joneses!

Nice to meet you, Jeff.

Nice to meet you guys.

That was a joke about spying--

It's a joke. I'd never spy on anyone.

We love humor.

Humor...

So, Natalie was just telling me that

she's a social media consultant.

Yeah. I also write a cooking blog.

I love blogs.

Yeah, and I work with a charity

for Sri Lankan orphans.

Those are my biggest passions.

Natalie's got a big heart.

Aw, thank you, baby.

Yeah...

-Why don't you tell them about--

-What?

She has passions too. Why don't you

tell them about the urinal?

No, honey!

-It's nothing.

-No, please. It sounds interesting.

I'm picking up a slight accent.

Is that Pittsburgh, maybe?

-She's from Greece.

-Oh, God.

No, but we've lived all over.

And now, it's finally time

to plant some roots. Right?

I can't tell you how excited we are

to be here on Maple Circle.

Such a lovely street.

It really is.

-Thank you.

-We love it.

It's fascinating. In other cultures,

they don't have anything like this.

No, they don't.

In Chinese, for example.

They don't even have a word

for a street like this.

What? For cul-de-sac?

No. No. I mean, they would say...

Which is, loosely,

-"happy place of heart and mind."

-Right.

But it doesn't really capture

the essence of it, right?

But it's cool coming

out of your mouth.

-Tim's a travel writer.

-Really?

-Wow! We love to travel.

-We do.

Yeah. We went to Epcot Center

last summer, was it? Yeah.

You can go to every country,

like, within three blocks.

Perfect. That's what we like about it.

We went with the boys over there.

That's Patrick and Mikey.

Patrick's leaning

against the wheel.

He's just a real cuddler.

-They're beautiful.

-Adorable.

Mikey made this.

-Wow!

-What a talent!

-Speaking of which, we brought you...

-Yes, yes.

...a little something.

What?

-That's amazing! Really?

-Give me a break!

I made it myself.

You made it yourself?

Wow. Look at this.

-What is this?

-What is that?

A sculpture.

Tim blows his own glass.

Look at it in the light, honey.

It sort of--

-That's gorgeous. Look at that.

-Gorgeous.

-You made that?

-Yeah,

it's a hobby I picked up in Hungary.

I wrote an article about this

Hungarian glass-blowing master, Yorgi.

-Thank you. I don't know what to say.

-You don't need to say anything.

Just put it right there

and use it as a conversation piece.

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