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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language Movie Release: 1999 DVD Release: 10/26/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 57 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 70 Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Paranoid Thriller See Also: Arlington Road [Blu-ray]

In this tense thriller, a man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be -- and their secrets could be deadly. Michael Faraday (played by Jeff Bridges) is a college professor whose wife, an FBI agent, was killed in the line of duty by members of an extremist right-wing terrorist group, leaving him to raise their nine-year-old son by himself. One day, he saves the life of a boy he sees on the street. The child turns out to be the son of his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack). Michael soon becomes friendly with the grateful Langs, who seem as cheerfully bland as anyone could hope from denizens of suburbia. But the better Michael gets to know Oliver, the more he becomes convinced that something isn't quite right; Oliver seems almost too clean and perfect, and Michael begins to notice that small details in Oliver's stories don't quite add up. The question is whether Michael's well-founded paranoia about the radical right is getting the better of him, or are the Langs up to something a lot more sinister than their cheerful smiles and manicured lawn would suggest? Ehren Kruger's screenplay for Arlington Road won the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowship prize in 1996; the film was the second directorial effort for Mark Pellington, who debuted with Going All the Way. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Jeff Bridges - Faraday
Tim Robbins - Oliver Lang
Joan Cusack - Cheryl Lang
Hope Davis - Brooke Wolf
Robert Gossett - FBI Agent Whit Carver

Mark Pellington's domestic terrorist thriller Arlington Road gets a fantastic DVD treatment on this release. The disc boasts a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. English soundtracks are rendered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track featuring the first-time director as well as lead actor Jeff Bridges, production notes, a "making of" featurette, an alternative ending, talent files, and theatrical trailers. This disc will please the film's fans and offers the best way to introduce the film to the uninitiated. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide