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Director Neil LaBute (IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, OYUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS) directs this suspense thriller in which an interracial couple (Patrick Wilson û HARD CANDY and Kerry Washington û LAST KING OF SCOTLAND) are harassed by their new neighbour; a racist policeman played by Samuel L. Jackson (PULP FICTION).

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ProducerWill Smith, James Lassiter

EAN5050904805015

eBay Product ID (ePID)72578980

Product Key Features

ActorPatrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Jay Hernandez, Samuel L. Jackson

DirectorNeil Labute

Release Year2009

GenreThriller, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

FormatUMD

LanguageEnglish

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Director of PhotographyRogier Stoffers

Costume DesignerLynette Meyer

Production DesignerBruton Jones

ReviewsLos Angeles Times - Jackson modulates Abel's internal turmoil and heated exchanges with enough shades of loneliness, steely generosity and wicked playfulness to give the actor firm control of our fascination and growing unease, USA Today - [LAKEVIEW TERRACE] delves often unflinchingly into issues of race, politics and class. Jackson's performance is mesmerizing

Certificate15

Subtitle LanguageArabic\English\Hindi\Italian

Dubbing LanguagesItalian

Consumer AdviceContains strong threat, violence and moderate sex references

Additional InformationA quick perusal of any of LAKEVIEW TERRACE's promotional materials--its nervy trailer, its foreboding (and painterly) dawn-hued poster featuring Samuel L. Jackson looking less-than-neighborly in his squad car--not only reveals it as a thriller, but offers up aesthetic evocations of several popular home-invasion suspensers made in the early 1990s. Like UNLAWFUL ENTRY and PACIFIC HEIGHTS, LAKEVIEW TERRACE takes place in upper-middle-class Californian suburbia. The film's ubiquitous purple sky and poolside lighting create an air of domestic bourgeois comfort just waiting to be upended by deadly, social unease. In this mode, the surprises start coming when the film opens with intimate household scenes not of the film's purported heroes, an interracial couple who's about to move next-door, but of its not-entirely-apparent villain--a curiously middle-aged beat cop (Jackson) who raises a few eyebrows when he close-mindedly bullies his children, but seems sad and sympathetic. <BR><BR><BR>The cop, a black man named Abel Turner, blankly observes from his home when the first new neighbour he sees is an African-American wife (Kerry Washington)--and then reacts with quiet shock and disgust when he realizes that the white mover is actually her husband, Chris (Patrick Wilson). The invasion in this home-invasion thriller is, ironically, the one perceived by its psychologically damaged bad guy. Abel, offended and ostensibly law-immune, immediately begins jabbing Chris with a toxic, racial passive-aggression that quickly becomes impossible to ignore. LAKEVIEW TERRACE adheres to a satisfying thriller construct. It's also a little interested in exploiting the archetypes of squirm-inducing domestic threat--all the nasty scenarios viewers know could happen from seeing those earlier movies--to consider several facets of American racism: its inevitability in familial and casual issues and its existence in liberal white guilt as much as its poisonous mixture with mental illness.

FeaturesWidescreen, With Subtitles

Movie/TV TitleLakeview Terrace

ComposerMichael Danna, Jeff Danna

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic

ScreenwriterHoward Korder, David Loughery

Run Time110 mins