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Title: Lakeview Terrace (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Abel Turner | |
| Patrick Wilson | ... | Chris Mattson | |
| Kerry Washington | ... | Lisa Mattson | |
| Ron Glass | ... | Harold Perreau | |
| Justin Chambers | ... | Donnie Eaton | |
| Jay Hernandez | ... | Javier Villareal | |
| Regine Nehy | ... | Celia Turner | |
| Jaishon Fisher | ... | Marcus Turner | |
| Robert Pine | ... | Captain Wentworth | |
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Keith Loneker | ... | Clarence Darlington |
| Caleeb Pinkett | ... | Damon Richards | |
| Robert Dahey | ... | Jung Lee Pak | |
| Ho-Jung | ... | Sang Hee Pak | |
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Dallas Raines | ... | TV Weatherman |
| Michael Sean Tighe | ... | Manager | |
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A very well made psycho-thriller that stands at the top of a sub-genre kick-started by Adrian Lyne's FATAL ATTRACTION in 1987. LAKEVIEW TERRACE features Samuel L. Jackson in riveting form as the main antagonist, a character who's not only the neighbour-from-hell but a cop-from-hell too (imagine this guy on the beat with Ray Liotta's character from UNLAWFUL ENTRY!). LAKEVIEW TERRACE sidesteps cliché throughout – arguably until the climax, anyway – and delivers plenty of suspense and thrills in its story of a racist-with-a-twist – this time it's Jackson who's the racist, a guy who hates whites.
Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington are somewhat bland modern actors, but the quality of the scripts drives them to give fairly good turns here. The film belongs to Jackson in the end, though, and he keeps us watching through thick and thin. Realism is often swept aside in these types of production (I'm thinking of you, PACIFIC HEIGHTS) but not so here. Neil LaBute has made some awful films (in fact his one before this was the dire Nicolas Cage remake THE WICKER MAN) but Lakeview Terrace is an unexpected delight – a high-calibre piece of professional filmmaking that never disappoints.