Lakeview Terrace

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Lakeview Terrace

PG-13

Released Sep 19, 2008

1h 46m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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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.

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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

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Nell Minow

Movie Mom

Rated: C

Feb 18, 2012

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Derek Adams

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 18, 2011

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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

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Jackson portrays the primary antagonist with a truly gleeful menace.

Rated: 5/10

Nov 28, 2020

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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

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AD 3

The writing is terrible. I turned it off with a hr to go, it was too phony and stupid i just couldn't fake interest anymore

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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Andrei S

This is a pure example of "good actors don't make a good film", as everything else is way below mediocre. I can only recommend you to NOT watch this movie, it is a complete waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/14/24

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Jelisije J

So many unnecessary characters in this film that dropped this movie rating for me even lower then what i originally watched.... I wish this movie story was handled better in a more realistic way.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/08/24

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Bronwyn D

This flick had good potential but it was just Too Silly to be any good. Which is unfortunate because the main actors are so talented.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

08/15/24

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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

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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

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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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