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| Lakeview Terrace | |
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| Directed by | Neil LaBute |
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| Story by | David Loughery |
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| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Edited by | Joel Plotch |
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| Distributed past | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $twenty million[1] |
| Box office | $44.7 million[1] |
Lakeview Terrace is a 2008 American crime thriller film[2] directed past Neil LaBute, written by David Loughery and Howard Korder, co-produced by James Lassiter and Will Smith, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. Jackson plays a racist African-American LAPD constabulary officer who terrorizes his new side by side-door neighbors (Wilson and Washington) because they are an interracially married couple. The championship is a reference to the ethnically-mixed middle grade Los Angeles neighborhood of Lake View Terrace.
The film was released on September xix, 2008, received mixed reviews and grossed $44 million.
Plot [edit]
An interracially married newlywed couple, Chris and Lisa Mattson, are moving into their kickoff home. Chris's first exchanges with their neighbor, widowed and longtime LAPD police officer and African-American homo Abel Turner, accept somewhat hostile undertones, with Abel making comments nearly Chris' smoking (which Abel afterward exposes to Lisa) and listening to hip hop music, and making remarks virtually his race in his human relationship with Lisa.
The post-obit nighttime, Chris and Lisa have sex in their pond pool. Unbeknownst to them, Abel's children, Marcus and Celia, are watching them. Abel arrives home and witnesses the spectacle. Angered, he repositions his house security floodlights to shine into Chris and Lisa'due south sleeping room window, keeping them awake. Abel begins to insinuate to Chris that he disapproves of his wedlock and that he wants them to move out of their new neighborhood.
One evening, Chris and Lisa hear noises downstairs and find the tires on Chris' motorcar slashed. Suspecting Abel, they call the police, who are unable to do anything because of Abel'due south status within the LAPD. Chris retaliates past shining his ain floodlights into Abel'southward bedroom.
Lisa after reveals she is pregnant, creating conflict with Chris, who does non yet want children. Meanwhile, Abel is suspended without pay for abusing a suspect, inciting more than fury within him. Abel continues his harassment of the couple past hosting a loud bachelor political party with his colleagues where he forces Chris to be sexually harassed past a stripper.
Chris subsequently plants copse forth the fence between their backdrop, which leads to a near-vehement exchange, every bit Abel objects to having trees hanging over his holding. When Chris goes to a local bar, Abel enters and tells Chris that his ain married woman died in a traffic accident because she was having an affair with her white male employer, and that he mistrusts white men and is prejudiced against interracial relationships considering of this.
Abel sends his informant, Clarence Darlington, to trash the Mattson's abode in another try to force them out. Lisa arrives home early, surprising Clarence. They struggle and Lisa is knocked out, only not before she triggers the alarm. Chris races home, followed by a frustrated Abel. When Abel comes upon his hired criminal, he kills him in order to keep him quiet. Lisa is rushed to the infirmary, but recovers.
Wildfires are raging in the surrounding hills and the residents are instructed to leave their homes. Abel, who remains backside, enters the Mattsons' dwelling, hoping to remember Clarence's dropped prison cell phone, fearing that it volition incriminate him. Lisa and Chris unexpectedly return from the infirmary before Abel finds the phone, and he leaves. While the Mattsons pack to evacuate, Chris finds the cell telephone. He calls the last number dialled and hears Abel reply. Chris realizes Abel is responsible for the break-in, and Abel realizes Chris has discovered the phone.
Abel goes over with his gun drawn, and he and Chris struggle. Before Lisa tin escape, Abel shoots her car, causing her to crash into a parked vehicle. After pistol whipping Abel and seemingly knocking him out, Chris tries to costless Lisa from the automobile. Abel fires his gun at Chris only misses, and Chris holds Abel's other gun at him while telling him to stay back. Hiding his gun in the dorsum of his pants, Abel claims he is unarmed when county sheriff officers arrive on the scene.
The police demand Chris drop his gun, while ordering Abel not move any further, uncertain of who the assaulter is. His married woman begs him to comply and Abel tells him to mind to her. Chris retorts that Abel needed to have listened to his wife and sarcastically asks if he foresaw her betrayal, implying that his belligerent attitude drove her to exist unfaithful.
Livid, Abel takes out his hidden gun and shoots Chris in the shoulder, prompting the deputies to gun downwards the quondam and kill him. In the ambulance, Chris and Lisa talk about their pride in their home, neighborhood, and soonhoped-for family, while the wildfires finally seem to exist contained.
Bandage [edit]
- Patrick Wilson as Chris Mattson
- Samuel L. Jackson every bit Officeholder Abel Turner
- Kerry Washington equally Lisa Mattson
- Jaishon Fisher as Marcus Turner
- Regine Nehy as Celia Turner
- Jay Hernandez equally Detective Javier Villareal
- Keith Loneker every bit Clarence Darlington
- Ron Glass equally Harold Perreau
- Caleeb Pinkett as Damon Richards
- Justin Chambers as Donnie Eaton
- Lynn Chen as Eden
- Dale Godboldo as Dale
- Robert Pine equally Captain Wentworth
- Bitsie Tulloch as Nadine
- Eva LaRue equally Lt. Morgada
- Vanessa Bell Calloway as Aunt Dorrie
- Robert Dahey equally Jung Lee Pak
- Ho-Jung every bit Sang Hee Pak
Production [edit]
Real life inspiration [edit]
The plot was loosely based on existent life events in Altadena, California involving an interracial couple, John and Mellaine Hamilton, and Irsie Henry,[3] an African-American Los Angeles police officer. The saga was documented in a series of articles in both the Pasadena Star News and the Pasadena Weekly kickoff in 2002.[iv] Journalist Andre Coleman received a Los Angeles' Press Club Honour for Excellence in Journalism for his series of articles in the Weekly.[5] Henry was eventually fired by the LAPD for his actions.[6]
Filming [edit]
The bulk of the film was shot in Walnut, California on North Deer Creek Drive. The scene where Abel Turner comes out of the police station to talk to his partner and other police officers was filmed in Hawthorne, California on the corner of Grevillea Ave. & 126th St.[vii]
Reception [edit]
Critical response [edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the moving-picture show holds an approval rating of 44% based on 167 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 5.50/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "This thriller near a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough merely threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory."[8] On Metacritic, the moving picture has an average weighted score of 47 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[9] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the pic an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.[10]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sunday-Times gave the film a very positive review, application it his highest rating of four stars and saying: "Some volition find it heady. Some will detect it an opportunity for an test of conscience. Some will exit feeling vaguely uneasy. Some won't like it and will exist admittedly certain why they don't, but their reasons volition not concord. Some will hate elements that others can't even run into. Some will only see a thriller. I find movies similar this alive and provoking, and I'1000 exhilarated to take my thinking challenged at every footstep of the way."[11]
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Relate also enjoyed the pic, proverb: "In its overall shape and message, Lakeview Terrace is a conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick information technology upwardly a notch. ... The fun of Lakeview Terrace is not in what happens but in how it happens."[12] J.R. Jones of the Chicago Reader called the film "one of the toughest racial dramas to come out of Hollywood since the fires died down – much tougher, for example, than Paul Haggis's mitt-wringing Oscar winner Crash."[13]
Dennis Harvey of Variety said that Lakeview Terrace "delivers fairly tense and engrossing drama" but "succumb[s] to thriller convention."[14] Anthony Lane of The New Yorker said that "the first 60 minutes of the motion picture ... feels dangerous, necessary, and rife with comic disturbance," only added that "the subsequently stages ... overheat and spill into silliness."[15] James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the picture two stars out of four, saying that "the offset ii-thirds of Lakeview Terrace offer a little more subtlety and complexity than the seemingly straightforward premise would afford, but the climax is loud, impaired, generic, and over-the-top."[16]
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe said that "the movie might have something to say about black racism, merely the conversations get nowhere, and the clichés of the genre take over."[17] Sura Wood of The Hollywood Reporter said: "[The idea of] a black player cast every bit the virulent bigot, with the object of his entrada of harassment the young interracial couple who movement in next door, could be viewed every bit a novel twist. But the moving-picture show, absent a sense of place and populated by repellent or weak characters, soon devolves into an increasingly foul litany of events."[18] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal gave it one half of a star out of five, and chosen the flick a "joyless and airless suspense thriller."[nineteen]
Box office [edit]
In its opening weekend the picture show grossed $15 million, placing information technology at number ane in the United States.[xx] The moving picture went on to gross $39.two one thousand thousand in the United States and Canada, and $three.2 meg in other territories, for a total of $42.4 million worldwide.[1]
Meet also [edit]
- List of films featuring home invasions
References [edit]
- ^ a b c "Lakeview Terrace (2008)". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Lakeview Terrace". Allmovie . Retrieved September four, 2012.
- ^ Coleman, Andre (August 30, 2007). "Art imitating headlines: "Extremely Agonizing" Behavior". Pasadena Weekly . Retrieved October ane, 2021.
- ^ Coleman, Andre (August viii, 2008). "Art imitating headlines: New movie mirrors quondam cop's ongoing racial feud with neighbors". Pasadena Weekly . Retrieved Baronial i, 2021.
- ^ Piasecki, Joe, Uhrich, Kevin & Stolz, Kit (June 26, 2008). "Weekly wins Press Social club awards". Pasadena Weekly . Retrieved August ane, 2021.
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- ^ "Grevillea Ave. and 126th St, CA - Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved Baronial x, 2009.
- ^ "Lakeview Terrace (2008)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved November one, 2017.
- ^ "Lakeview Terrace Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved September 21, 2008.
- ^ Busch, Anita; D'Alessandro, Anthony (September 12, 2016). "'Sully' Lands At $35M, 'Bough' Breaks With $fourteen.2M – Mon B.O. Concluding". Borderline Hollywood.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (September 18, 2008). "Adept fences brand bad neighbors". Chicago Lord's day-Times. RogerEbert.com.
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review, Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle,
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review Archived 21 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review Archived July 19, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Dennis Harvey, Variety
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review, Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review, James Berardinelli, ReelViews
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review Archived Feb 5, 2009, at the Wayback Car, Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review Archived March 29, 2010, at the Wayback Car, Sura Wood, The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Lakeview Terrace review, Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
- ^ "Weekend Box Role Results from ix/nineteen to 9/21". Box Office Mojo. September 21, 2008. Retrieved November 26, 2008.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Lakeview Terrace at IMDb
- Lakeview Terrace at AllMovie
- Lakeview Terrace debuts in acme spot at box office Archived September 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine CNN
- "Pasadena Weekly - Copping Out"
- "Pasadena Weekly - Extremely Disturbing Beliefs"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeview_Terrace
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