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The Perfect Neighbor

2025 1h 37m
Crime Documentary
MOVIEVIBE Rating
6.8/10
337 reviews
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The Perfect Neighbor

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

Top Billed Cast

Susan Lorincz
Susan Lorincz
Self (archive footage)
Ajike Owens
Ajike Owens
Self (archive footage)
Pamela Dias
Pamela Dias
Self (archive footage)

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

D Dean Verified TMDB Critic
2025-11-25

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...

B Brent Marchant Verified TMDB Critic
2025-12-28

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 ...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2026-07-21

There's something really quite disturbing about this body-cam led feature, and something distressingly unnecessary about it too. What is immediately clear to the viewer is that over a two year period of filming, Susan Lorincz is ill. Now I'm no psychiatrist but if you are police officers constantly being called to a property by a woman who is claiming all sorts of often quite trivial infractions on her property by her neighbours, you might start to wonder whether or not she is just an attention seeking nuisance or perhaps something more akin to a paranoid individual. Her neighbours are by no m...