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Julia Roberts' and her production company Red Om Films have acquired the screen rights to Peter Lovenheim's non-fiction book "In The Neighborhood " reports Variety.

The story starts with Lovenheim's realization of a lack of community in his suburban hometown. In an effort to get to know his neighbors better, he asks if he can come to their homes for sleepovers. His goal: to facilitate something more than the feeling of strangers living with strangers in modern suburbia.

Roberts is expected to produce the pic.