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 by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.