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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   33,692 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Ehren Kruger (written by)
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Release Date:
9 July 1999 (USA) more
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Fear Thy Neighbor more
Plot:
A college professor begins to suspect that his neighbour is a terrorist. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 nominations more
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(22 articles)
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1999: A Year In Review (Part One)
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Flawed but resonant film more (543 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jeff Bridges ... Michael Faraday

Tim Robbins ... Oliver Lang

Joan Cusack ... Cheryl Lang

Hope Davis ... Brooke Wolfe
Robert Gossett ... FBI Agent Whit Carver
Mason Gamble ... Brady Lang

Spencer Treat Clark ... Grant Faraday

Stanley Anderson ... Dr. Archer Scobee

Viviane Vives ... Nurse

Lee Stringer ... Orderly

Darryl Cox ... Troopmaster, Conspirator

Loyd Catlett ... Delivery Man, Conspirator
Sid Hillman ... Phone Technician, Conspirator
Auden Thornton ... Hannah Lang
Mary Ashleigh Green ... Daphne Lang
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Arlington Rd. (USA) (alternative spelling)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and some language.
Runtime:
117 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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The script for "Arlington Road", written by Ehren Kruger, was discovered when it won the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting competition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This film is only the sixth winner of the competition to actually be produced. more
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Continuity: When he crashes the Contour with the truck he smashes the front headlamp, but a following scene shows both headlamps intact and only a scratch. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
Oliver Lang: Where do we go from here?
Cheryl Lang: Someplace nice.
Oliver Lang: I hope so.
Cheryl Lang: Someplace safe.
Oliver Lang: Definitely.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Film Geek (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Do the Country Cha-Cha-Cha more

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34 out of 54 people found the following comment useful.
Flawed but resonant film, 13 September 1999
8/10
Author: Sean Gallagher (naes@cgocable.net) from Oakville, Ont. Canada

It seems like every year, there's one or two films which are far from perfect but nonetheless shake us up in ways better films don't quite do. Last year, it was BULWORTH, and this year, it's ARLINGTON ROAD. Obviously, after all that's happened this decade in America, from Waco to Oklahoma City, the time is ripe for a movie to explore the cracks in the American dream which brought about events like those. This film ultimately asks more questions than it answers, but that may just be a condition inherent to this type of film. More troubling is two things: (1) Though I agree with those(and I'll try not to give away too much here) who theorize the ending changes the whole perspective of the film, there are still too many key narrative cheats(a conversation Robbins supposedly had with Bridges' son seems unbelievable, and the traffic light scene near the end also is) to make it fully effective; (2) The film seems a little confused of what it's about; it is a study of one man's psyche, or the nation's?

Still, ARLINGTON ROAD shouldn't be dismissed. There are troubling questions explored, and you don't have to be a conspiracy nut to believe those so-called "fringe" hate groups are entering the mainstream at a frightening rate for a so-called "civilized" society. The ending is also powerful, and though I understand it, more than anything else, was responsible for the delays, I applaud whoever was in charge for not changing it(though again, how they got there is another story). Bridges' performance is another thing which makes more sense once you look back with the ending of the film in mind, and it doesn't seem like over-acting. Robbins is a little more problematic; there are scenes where he's convincing, and then scenes where he goes over-the-top and shouldn't. Hope Davis doesn't have a big part, but she injects a lot into it as usual. But the biggest surprise here is Joan Cusack. Anyone who thinks of her only as a (good)comic actress will be in for a shock; there's one scene involving her which is the scariest in the film.

Again, ultimately, while it leaves you with nagging doubts about the quality, ARLINGTON ROAD makes you think enough to recommend it.

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