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Lakeview Terrace

PG-13 Released Sep 19, 2008 1h 46m Mystery & Thriller Drama List
45% Tomatometer 166 Reviews 39% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings
An uptight cop (Samuel L. Jackson), the self-appointed watchdog of his neighborhood, strongly disapproves of the interracial newlyweds (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington) who just moved in next door. He becomes increasingly hostile toward the innocent pair, going to great lengths to force them out of their home. The situation changes when the young couple decide to fight back. Read More Read Less
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This thriller about a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough but threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Alas, LaBute loses it entirely in the third and final act, when he yields entirely to genre convention and allows it all to explode into a shoot-out of the utmost silliness. Feb 1, 2018 Full Review Nell Minow Movie Mom Rated: C Feb 18, 2012 Full Review Derek Adams Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 18, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Until the last fifteen minutes of the film when LaBute ceases to challenge us, but rather aggravates circumstances to the predictable nature of Hollywood potboilers, there’s much to admire. Rated: 3/4 Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Jackson portrays the primary antagonist with a truly gleeful menace. Rated: 5/10 Nov 28, 2020 Full Review Jason Best What's On TV Jackson is much more menacing when he is quietly insinuating than when he reaches for his gun, and Lakeview Terrace is much more disturbing before the film's corrosive racial resentment and hatred spills into actual violence. Nov 15, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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steve b In the writing school videos I sometimes watch one of the top tips they tell you is 'Do not start off your efforts by describing characters waking up and getting out of bed.' The first ten minutes, we see the main character slowly get up and then five minutes later - two people in bed with no (!) real action going on. I confess, that's as far as I got with this - it just seemed like it was some moral outrage thing and well...life is too short to be wasting time on lame things like this Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 07/31/24 Full Review Alec B The movie is obviously a very deliberate provocation (and one that I would argue is completely legitimate) but the issue is that the movie gets sillier and sillier as it goes along. By the end it just goes completely off the rails which undermines the tension. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/24 Full Review Bruno V Filme elegante com nuances incríveis de um verdadeiro cinema. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/13/24 Full Review Rick H Terrible movie, should have been titled ‘The Crazy N. Next Door'. Easy skip. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/11/23 Full Review Dan W This movie gets more irritating and pointless with every minute that goes by. Silly and horribly annoying. Jackson was great but everything else was garbage. A very lazy put together "fighting back against an unreasonable neighbor" concept. I've seen worse neighborhood conflict in an elderly housing community than this. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/14/23 Full Review donnie m 'COULD' have been a good movie but it should be called-HOW STUPID ARE YOU? especially to the husband played by Patrick Wilson Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis An uptight cop (Samuel L. Jackson), the self-appointed watchdog of his neighborhood, strongly disapproves of the interracial newlyweds (Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington) who just moved in next door. He becomes increasingly hostile toward the innocent pair, going to great lengths to force them out of their home. The situation changes when the young couple decide to fight back.
Director
Neil LaBute
Producer
Will Smith, James Lassiter
Screenwriter
David Loughery, Howard Korder
Distributor
Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Overbrook Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Language|Intense Thematic Material|Sexuality|Some Drug References|Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 19, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$39.3M
Runtime
1h 46m
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