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The movie is a compromised mess, but that didnt stop *Lakeview Terrace* from rising to the top of the box-office heap this weekend. Id like to think it did modestly well ($15.6 million) because audiences were interested in what director Neil La Bute, author of *In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Shape of Things* and other blistering intrusions into the male psyche, might do with a conventional crime thriller. Not much, as it turns out. But its clear that audiences were lining up to see Samuel L. Jacksons L.A. cop get all up the face of his white neighbor (Patrick Wilson) as well as the other movie competition. Last weeks top grosser, the Coen brothers *Burn After Reading* still had the heat to take second place with $11.3 million, but poor Ricky Gervais found the prickly fun he added to *Ghost Town* falling on dead houses for a paltry $5.1 million and a tired eighth place. Depressed yet? All of us should be. Id like some input on why Sam Jackson can still bring in the crowds. And its time to ask an important question about Big Sam.
Posted: 9.22.08
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