Lakeview Terrace

Synopsis: In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Neil LaBute
Production: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
2008
110 min
$39,263,506
Website
415 Views


Joining me now to talk more about that,

Lieutenant Solomon Goff from

the Esmeralda County Sheriff's Department.

Lieutenant Goff, at this hour,

what is going on up at the fire line?

Well, they're just doing

the best they can to put it out.

There's about 450 fire personnel up there

and the fire is going

in all different directions. We're...

- You alive in there?

- Almost.

All right. Shake a leg.

Thank you, Spencer.

Well, the beach cities today

are gonna be in the mid-90s.

What a great day to hit the surf.

And downtown Los Angeles,

I'm forecasting a cool 102 degrees.

And hey, you folks out in the valleys,

get ready for a record-breaking May high...

Stand up.

What'd I tell you about that jersey?

It's clean.

- We're not advertising that guy, okay?

- Why not?

'Cause he don't approve of him.

- He's, like, 47/ from the floor.

- Marcus. Another shirt, please.

Look, Son. We talked about this, right?

We decided to make the jump to Shaq.

Doesn't approve.

What?

What's the rule?

I don't know, you got so many.

Have. I have so many.

And let me remind you, not at the table.

It's disrespectful.

One, two, three strikes. It's out.

- But Aunt Dorrie gave me this.

- I'll give it back to her.

- I'm changing my name.

- How come?

'Cause I don't wanna be

from this family no more.

Anymore.

What about me?

You're on your own.

So you're not going to Aunt Dorrie's

this summer?

I'm going.

Am I coming back, is the question.

Who's this?

You think they'll let us swim in their pool?

Never this hot in Oakland.

Oh, stop complaining.

- Come on. Hurry up.

- I'll start unloading.

- Coming.

- Okay, yeah. That's great. We're here.

Well, I really like this...

All right.

I can't believe how imprudent you are.

Did an inspector take a look at that?

Yes. It's totally stable.

They're building townhouses

there next year.

Can you not be such a grump?

Can you not be such a grump?

You made this possible.

You helped a lot.

This is so great. I love you.

Johnny, my man. How you doing?

- New neighbors?

- Yeah, looks like it.

Did you meet them yet?

You wanna give people a chance

to settle in, you know?

I'll wait till the movers leave.

How much you think they paid?

I don't know, man.

Hell of a lot more than I did 20 years ago.

Still the best investment. Up, up, up.

When you're right, you're right.

Have a good one.

You'll make it, you have plenty of time.

Well, the pilot's already checked in.

And I don't mind driving you to the airport.

You might look good in a Prius.

That man won't mind driving me either,

and I'm willing to tip him.

- Okay.

- Bye.

- Chris.

- Harold.

- Always a pleasure.

- Yeah.

- You check in.

- Okay.

Let us know how things are going.

You know how your mother gets.

What a shame he lives 400 miles away.

- It makes me sad.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- You gonna cry?

- Can he move in?

Come on. Come, come, come.

What the...

What is that?

I don't know.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That's my only Prada.

What?

That's better.

- He's got security lights.

- Who does?

Whoever, next door.

He's got one on a pole in the back.

I told you we should've

put sheets on the windows.

Sheets? We need bricks.

- Hey, babe?

- Yeah?

I look okay?

It's gonna be a hundred

and something degrees.

I know, but I can't do this in just a shirt.

They'll think it's rude.

Oh, is that where you're gonna put the...

Yes, it is, because I like this space

and I'm the one that's here all day long.

- Okay?

- Perfect.

So I'll call you, like, 2:00-ish.

You're okay driving the truck back?

Oh, gosh, I don't know.

Maybe if you showed me

where the key goes in the little...

I'll show you where the key in the...

- I gotta go.

- Okay. Break legs.

- Hey.

- Yeah.

We're homeowners.

Sweetie, your bag.

Babe?

What the...

- Here you go.

- I got a ticket.

Yeah, well, you are hanging out a little bit.

Well... So what?

Are we living in Bel Air or something?

Sweetheart, it's not filled out. Look.

"Welcome to Lakeview, neighbor.

Observe all parking regulations. "

"A.T."

Look at you, making nice-nice.

Oh, gosh. A little cop humor.

He's here to protect and serve us.

Maybe we can borrow his handcuffs.

I like that.

- Hey, we can go over tonight and say hello.

- Okay.

- Don't work too hard.

- Never.

Out of here. Yo, chief!

Let's roll, man. Five-O. Come on!

Let's get out of here, man.

Clarence Darlington, hold! Don't run.

Hey, hey! Don't make us chase you.

Nobody say nothing.

Sh*t!

Come here. Front and center, let's go.

Right here.

Some French Connection bullshit.

Watch your mouth. Come on, on the car.

Pulling this sh*t on me?

In front of my people?

- I would never do that to you, dawg.

- This is for your benefit, man.

Now it looks like you fought

the law and the law won.

You can go back and be the man,

instead of the crack-dealing

little snitch that you are.

Forget the circumstance.

Sh*t's disrespectful to a brother.

Brother? Clarence, we ain't brothers.

We didn't even crawl out of

the same evolutionary pool.

What are you, anyway?

You know, I always wondered about that.

You a Euro-Mexi-Japa-Chine-stani or what?

You don't even know, do you?

Ain't got a clue.

- Watch yourself.

- You're a weed, that's what you are.

A junkyard weed.

Spray your ass with some Roundup.

I'm 1l7th Cherokee, b*tch!

Yeah, and the other 93/ wigger.

Can you do the math on that, dumb ass?

You got problems, man. Seriously.

This sh*t aside, you don't see straight.

What you got for me, Clarence?

Give me something other than

this fake-ass Vanilla Ice impression.

I know who popped that kid on Palm Grove.

Leontro Wilson.

He's running with a crew up

in the Baldwin Village.

- You got an address?

- What?

You're the sworn officer.

Go knock on some doors and sh*t.

- Are we done? I got quotas, too.

- Hold, hold, hold, hold.

One thing. One thing.

You get to stay in business

as long as you're useful, okay?

- All right, man, you told me.

- Oh, and one other thing.

No more little girls.

I don't wanna see that sh*t.

Baby ain't too little for me.

Just 'cause they don't scream when you

use them doesn't mean they're not little.

You understand me?

Now bounce.

Prick.

Watch your ass, big guy.

Give me your wallet.

Give up the wallet, man. Give it up!

- Oh, sh*t.

- Come on, hurry up! Give it up!

And turn that sh*t down!

God damn it.

Boy, you got a lot to learn.

What?

Never roll your window down

when somebody does that.

No matter where you are, Chris.

- You scared the hell out of me.

- Well, how else you gonna learn?

- Abel Turner.

- Hey. Yeah, Chris...

Mattson.

Yeah. I was meaning to come over.

- You got a lot on your hands.

- Yeah, well, you know, moving and...

- It's very stressful, you know?

- Yeah.

But you got your mad beats

and your blunt here to help you chill out.

Oh, it's just a cigarette. Organic.

Okay. Not against the law yet.

Well, it is in my house.

I hear you.

So are you a SoCal boy, Chris?

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David Loughery

David Loughery is an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Chicago, Loughery attended Ball State University and the University of Iowa where he was a member of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. His first produced screenplay was Dreamscape in 1984. Loughery often works with director Joseph Ruben for whom he has written or rewritten several films including The Stepfather, The Good Son, and Penthouse North. Five of Loughery's films (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Passenger 57, The Three Musketeers, Lakeview Terrace, and Obsessed) have opened Number One at the box office. more…

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