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The Perfect Neighbor

The Perfect Neighbor

6,8 /10 (290 Votes)
2025 EN 97 min

Overview

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

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Release date

10/10/2025

Votes

290

Popularity

1.6

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

97 min

Website

www.netflix.com

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Dean

Dean

2025-11-25

⭐ 1

Started good and actually similar thing happened to me. I have a problematic neighbor and once, he insulted my mother when they were outside, then when he returned he banged on our door and this is when I said enough was enough. I got furious, went outside and started banging on his door and telling him to come out and face me like a man to man. He didn't. But in this documentary, that problematic neighbor shot the door banger neighbor. Anyway, back to the documentary... Like I said it started good and was interesting and I was going to give it a big ratings, but as always they turned this doc…

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Brent Marchant

2025-12-28

⭐ 6

This is likely to be seen as an unpopular assessment, for a variety of reasons and regardless of where one stands on the issues presented in this release. Director Geeta Gandbhir’s Netflix documentary examines the question of using potentially fatal force for self-protection under controversial state statutes known as Stand Your Ground laws. In particular, the film explores a 2023 case in Marion County, Florida in which resident Susan Lorincz shot and killed neighbor Ajike Owens by firing at her through the closed and locked front door of her home after claiming that she feared for her life wh…

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