"For me, Carol Peterson from The ’Burbs is essential Carrie Fisher viewing. Joe Dante’s 1989 comedy, centering around the odd and mysterious family living next door to Tom Hanks in his quiet neighborhood, would mark the second time Fisher would star alongside Hanks after 1985’s The Man With One Red Shoe. Though Fisher’s Carol Peterson was the quintessential suburban mom — something of a departure from previous roles that were set either in a galaxy far, far away or in cultural centers such as L.A., New York or Chicago — in some ways, Carol was very much like Princess Leia: the voice of reason and sanity in the middle of a trio of boyish ne’er-do-wells."

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