Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace, released in 2008, stars Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, and Kerry Washington. Throughout the film, there are several themes and references to issues that have been present in our country. For example, good cop-bad cop and a reference to Rodney King's "Why Can't We All Just Get Along?" Although it is obvious that Jackson's character, Abel Turner, doesn't approve of the interracial marriage between Chris and Lisa Mattson, played by Wilson and Washington, it can also be argued that the movie is saying that a male is incapable of raising kids properly on his own. Mr. Turner gives his two kids strict rules and keeps them on a short leash. At one point in the movie, he even hits his fifteen year old daughter. Just because it can be hard to raise children as a single parent, it doesn't mean that a single father is less capable of taking care of children than a single mother.