First Look: Matt Damon & Julianne Moore In ‘Surburbicon’

Announced today to be making its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (which pretty much guarantees it’s going to be making its World Premiere in Venice), “Suburbicon” is quickly taking awards season shape. Now, we have our first images from the movie.

Directed by George Clooney, penned by the Coens, and starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Josh Brolin, and Oscar Isaac the film has long been positioned as having a home invasion as central to the story. However, the official synopsis keeps a bit more vague:

Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns… the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.

It sounds like everyone wants to keep this one a bit secretive for the moment, but one thing Clooney is eager to share is that Isaac walks away with the movie.

“Well, it’s tricky not to give too much away. It takes place in 1959 on the East Coast. A suburb like Levittown, Pennsylvania. Matt Damon and Julianne Moore get into a great deal of trouble and make some terrible decisions. Oscar Isaac comes in and sets into motion a series of pretty horrendous crimes. Basically, Oscar gets to come in and steal the movie,” he told Yahoo Movies. We’re game for that.

“Surburbicon” opens on October 27th.