Lakeview Terrace

For the Los Angeles neighborhood, see Lake View Terrace, Los Angeles, California. For the Cleveland housing complex, see Lakeview Terrace (Cleveland).

Lakeview Terrace
A bald police officer with sunglasses in a car looks toward the viewer. Below him shows the actor who plays him, the title, statement, production credits and release date.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byNeil LaBute
Screenplay by
Story byDavid Loughery
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRogier Stoffers
Edited byJoel Plotch
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • September 19, 2008 (2008-09-19)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[1]
Box office$44.7 million[1]

Lakeview Terrace is a 2008 American crime thriller film[2] directed by 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 Black Los Angeles Police Department police officer who terrorizes his new next-door neighbors (Wilson and Washington) because they are an interracially married couple. The title is a reference to the ethnically mixed middle class Los Angeles neighborhood of Lake View Terrace.

The film was released on September 19, 2008, received mixed reviews and grossed $44 million.

  1. ^ a b "Lakeview Terrace (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Lakeview Terrace". Allmovie. Retrieved September 4, 2012.