# Rating: PG-13
# Studio: Sony Pictures
# DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
# Run Time: 110 minutes
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his Afro-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a safe compound. The racist and dysfunctional next door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner that feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives in Hell on Earth. source.
Decent rental, not great, but decent.
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Jake Lassiter chases a beautiful woman and stolen bonds from Miami to Maui,
where in an explosive finale, he learns lessons never taught on the football field or in the courtroom. If you enjoy John Grisham, Harlan Coben, Carl Hiaasen, and James Patterson, you'll love "Riptide" from Paul Levine, winner of the John D. MacDonald fiction award. Levine has also been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG."
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