# 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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