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 |
| Box office | $44.7 million |
Lakeview Terrace is a 2008 American crime thriller film 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.