A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.Written by
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The detective that Rodney visits is named Latasha Peele. See more »
Goofs
At the end of the movie, when Rod pulls up in the "TSA vehicle", while properly displaying a "DHS" license plate, the driver's door incorrectly displays the seal of the state of New York. See more »
Quotes
Chris Washington:
It's fine. I wasn't trying to snitch.
Georgina:
Snitch?
Chris Washington:
Rat you out.
Georgina:
[thinks]
Tattletale!
Chris Washington:
Yeah.
Georgina:
Oh, don't you worry about that. I can assure you, I don't answer to anyone.
Chris Washington:
Right. All I know is sometimes, if there's too many white folks, I get nervous, you know.
Georgina:
[stops smiling, smiles again, tear rolls down her face, laughs]
Oh, no. No. No! No, no. No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no. Aren't you something. That's not my experience. Not at all. The Armitages are so good to us. They treat us like family.
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Let's clear the air about this film. It's not a horror film. It's not a comedy. What it is, is a suspenseful thriller of the highest level, worthy to be compared to Hitchcock caliber. The humor is there, along with a few horror scenes, but not enough to overshadow the main theme of the story. The film hits all cylinders with almost no misfires. As far as complaints that the film is racist, it is not. It would work just as well with an all-black or all-white cast. Those complaints are from people who are uncomfortable with black people or interracial relationships and are letting it distract them from the narrative of the film. I most certainly hope that it reaches the wider audience that it so richly deserves.
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Let's clear the air about this film. It's not a horror film. It's not a comedy. What it is, is a suspenseful thriller of the highest level, worthy to be compared to Hitchcock caliber. The humor is there, along with a few horror scenes, but not enough to overshadow the main theme of the story. The film hits all cylinders with almost no misfires. As far as complaints that the film is racist, it is not. It would work just as well with an all-black or all-white cast. Those complaints are from people who are uncomfortable with black people or interracial relationships and are letting it distract them from the narrative of the film. I most certainly hope that it reaches the wider audience that it so richly deserves.