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- " Keeping up with the Joneses " is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison of oneself to one's neighbor, where the neighbor serves as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods.
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The Joneses is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Derrick Borte, in his directorial debut. It stars Demi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard, and Ben Hollingsworth. [2] It premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2009. [3]
The Joneses - Steve and Kate and teenaged children Jenn and Mick - move into a suburban neighbourhood and seem the perfect family. Good-looking, successful, trend-setting, engaging - they seem to have it all and are the model family.
The Joneses: Directed by Derrick Borte. With David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Heard, Benjamin Hollingsworth. A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Derrick Borte
- 2010-04-23
The phrase originates with the comic strip Keeping Up with the Joneses, created by Arthur R. "Pop" Momand in 1913. The strip ran until 1940 in The New York World and various other newspapers. The strip depicts the social climbing McGinis family, who struggle to "keep up" with their neighbors, the Joneses of the title.
Apr 14, 2010 · The Joneses are professional early adapters, paid to impersonate a family unit and consume the sponsor’s products. Among other advantages to this story idea, it makes product placement necessary, not merely venal. If you don’t leave this movie more aware of the new Audi models, you slept through it. The Joneses never make a point of anything.
Posing as an ordinary family, stealth marketers (David Duchovny, Demi Moore) move into a wealthy neighborhood and encourage the residents to spend lots of money. Peacock Prime Video. Watch The ...
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Apr 16, 2010 · Rolling into their new, über-upscale gated community in a gleaming Audi SUV, the Joneses are determined to make their mark. “We are gonna do some damage in this town,” Steve promises his wife, Kate, and their two high schoolers, Jenn and Mick.
