If you live next door to a psycho, does it really matter that he's black? Or that he's a bigot? No, only that he has a large collection of power tools and isn't afraid to use them. As a rumination on race relations, LaBute's latest is a dead end. Even if psychological thrills are all you're after, is the last place you'll want to come looking. Neil LaBute has a bulletin for America: Racial strife is alive and well. Why he regards this as news is anyone's guess, but he delivers it solemnly and dresses it up with references to the Rodney King beating. One of the movie's principal characters is an LAPD officer. The other, a white yuppie, asks at one point, "Can't we all just get along?" The title is, indeed, the name of the neighborhood where the 1991 King beating took pla...
In one of many smart and poignant scenes, Lisa and Abel's 15-year-old daughter, who's interested in a white boy at school, share a little girl talk after a swim (unauthorized by dad) in the [Chris Mattson] pool. How much should she "like" a boy before she goes out with him? She has no mom to tell her. The Mattsons' marriage is often just as frank: Lisa's imposing lawyer-father doesn't approve of their union, and the friction he foments joins them in bed. A few of their spats are tense, but their reconciliations happen naturally. It's a surprisingly realistic portrait of a marriage complicated by prejudices on both sides. takes place in an upscale, mixed-race Los Angeles neighborhood far from where Abel Turner ([Sam Jackson]), a 28-year veteran of the LAPD, busts heads. ...
Jackson's filmography is vast (well over 100 movies), ranging from bit parts in "Coming to America" and "Do the Right Thing," to leads in "Shaft" and "Unbreakable," to oddities like "Snakes on a Plane" and "Blacksnake Moan." He's popped up as a voice in "The Incredibles" and as a Jedi Master in the "Star Wars" films. And you'll be seeing him as Col. Nick Fury in future Marvel blockbusters. Sure, the great surrealist artist Salvador Dali was involved in a few films: He helped Buñuel with "Un Chien Andalou" ("The Andalusian Dog"). He designed the dream sequence in Hitchcock's "Spellbound." He collaborated with Disney on a short animation titled "Distino." He came up with the drunken fantasy in the old film noir "Moontide." He was even set to co-star in Alejandro Jodorowsky's version of "D...
Washington has been seen in movies as diverse as the Oscarnominated Ray Charles biopic "Ray" to the historical drama "The Last King of Scotland" (which won Forrest Whitaker an Oscar for Best Actor) to the Chris Rock comedy "I Think I Love My Wife." She recently spoke by phone about her role in "Lakeview Terrace. It's about class. It's about race. It's about identity. It's about relationships," she said. "That's one of the things I loved about doing it. It's complex." "I directed a music video of Common's that I was in with Alicia Keys and Common" for the single "I Want You," Washington said. "I fell in love with directing. I plan to do a lot more of that. I was just in South Carolina researching a project that I'm producing, so I'm going to be doing a lot more (directing and producing...
I think what's cool about the film," Washington told me in a telephone interview, "is the fact that it's about so many different things. Director Neil Labute's decision to allow certain things to end up on the editor's cutting room floor was ill advised. There are answers he should have kept in the movie. Like what happened to [Abel Turner]'s two children? Did [Chris] and Lisais house catch on fire? What became of the man who brings up the police-brutality lawsuit against Abel? Why did [David Loughery] and [Howard Korder] opt to have a raging fire as a subplot; which did not propel the story far enough? "I just think there's so many interesting things to talk about when you walk out of the theater," said Washington, who will soon be appearing in Spike Lee's Miracle at St Anna. "Things...
[Samuel L. Jackson] is LAPD officer Abel Turner and the neighbor from hell as he torments a young interracial couple played by Kerry Washington and Patrick Wilson who have just moved next door in the posh Southern California neighborhood. It isn't totally clear why Jackson's character is so full of rage toward the couple in this hybrid of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "Cape Fear" but it's a lot of fun watching Jackson who is at his best even if much of the racial commentary he spews out stings. I think Abel has a definite point of view that he's not afraid to express," says Jackson. "Abel says what's on his mind. He has a real opinion about how he wants the world to be and what he thinks should be going on around him in his neighborhood. He has a definite idea about how he wants t...
The film "Lakeview Terrace" opens Sept. 19. It is a story of newlyweds played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington who move into their dream home and find they are the target of a disgruntled next door neighbor who disapproves of their interracial relationship. An LAPD officer, played by Samuel L. Jackson, appoints himself as the neighborhood watchdog but goes too far.
Washington has been seen in movies as diverse as the Oscar-nominated Ray Charles biopic "Ray" to the historical drama "The Last King of Scotland" (which won Forrest Whitaker an Oscar for Best Actor) to the Chris Rock comedy "I Think I Love My Wife." She recently spoke by phone about her role in "Lakeview Terrace. It's about class. It's about race. It's about identity. It's about relationships," she said. "That's one of the things I loved about doing it. It's complex." "I directed a music video of Common's that I was in with Alicia Keys and Common" for the single "I Want You," Washington said. "1 fell in love with directing. I plan to do a lot more of that. I was just in South Carolina researching a project that I'm producing, so I'm going to be doing a lot more (directing and producin...
Lakeview Terrace (PG-13) H 1/2
Washington has been seen in movies as diverse as the Oscar-nominated Ray Charles biopic "Ray" to the historical drama "The Last King of Scotland" (which won Forrest Whitaker an Oscar for Best Actor) to the Chris Rock comedy "I Think I Love My Wife." She recently spoke by phone about her role in "Lakeview Terrace. It's about class. It's about race. It's about identity. It's about relationships," she said. "That's one of the things I loved about doing it. It's complex." "I directed a music video of Common's that I was in with Alicia Keys and Common" for the single "I Want You," Washington said. "I fell in love with directing. I plan to do a lot more of that. I was just in South Carolina researching a project that I'm producing, so I'm going to be doing a lot more (directing and producin...
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