''Next Door'' is a 1994 American

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. It originally aired September 4, 1994 on the Showtime network and was made available on VHS January 17, 1995. As of January 2009, the film has yet to find a DVD release.

Plot

Matt (Woods), a sophisticated college professor and Karen (Capshaw), his schoolteacher wife, have inconsiderate neighbors (a loutish beer-swilling butcher and his wife, played by Quaid and Jenney) whose lawn sprinkler drowns their flowers. A feud erupts and as a series of tit-for-tat actions escalate, they also start to get crueler and more destructive.

Cast

as Matt Coler *

as Lenny Benedetti *

as Karen Coler *

as Marci Benedetti * Miles Fuelner as Bucky

References

External links

Next Door (1994 film)
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