Arlington Road (1999)

Director:

Mark Pellington

Writer (WGA):

Ehren Kruger (written by)

Release Date:

9 July 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Fear Thy Neighbor

Plot:

A college professor begins to suspect that his neighbour is a terrorist.

Plot Keywords:

Professor | Neighbor | FBI | FBI Agent | Washington D.C.

Awards:

5 nominations

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

Also Known As:

Arlington Rd. (USA) (alternative spelling)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

117 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Iceland:16 | Ireland:15 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #36250) | Philippines:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Company:

Arlington Road Productions Corporation

Trivia:

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.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Lang's yearbook is supposed to be from Kansas State (notice the K-State Wildcat in the front cover) but in the picture Faraday finds, the building Lang is standing in front of - Aycock Auditorium - is actually on the campus of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Quotes:

Oliver Lang: Never wiser than when we're children. They say it and it's true. We'll never see things that clear again.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Hole (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Amistad Armadillo

A great movie,with a very original ending.

Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins stars in this very original thriller. I thought Tim Robbins did an excellent job as the bad guy and Jeff Bridges is as always good.This movie is one of the better thrillers I have seen, it has some very creepy scenes and the ending is one of a kind.I have read that many people was unsatisfied with the ending,but I must say that I really liked it.It shows that it does not always go the way we want and that life is not always fair. I will not spoil anything so I am just going to say that this is a movie you have to see and I promise that it will be one of the better movies you have seen in a while.