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Arlington Road [Blu-ray] (1999)

Jeff Bridges , Tim Robbins , Mark Pellington  |  R |  Blu-ray
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (241 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis
  • Directors: Mark Pellington
  • Format: AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Unknown)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, Thai
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (241 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000QXDFQW
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,400 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Arlington Road [Blu-ray]" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Commentary with Director Mark Pellington and Jeff Bridges
  • Hidden Vulnerability: The Making Of Arlington Road
  • Alternate Ending

  • Editorial Reviews

    Amazon.com

    It's easy to understand why Arlington Road sat on the studio shelf for nearly a year. No, the film isn't awful; rather, it's an extremely edgy and ultimately bleak thriller that offers no clear-cut heroes or villains. In other words, Hollywood had no idea how to sell it. Director Mark Pellington's underrated directorial debut, Going All the Way, suffered the same fate, essentially because the filmmaker's presentation of suburban America often shifts dramatically within the same film. Characters are usually miserable and bordering on meltdown, no situation is straightforward, and things usually end badly. Arlington Road begins as an astute study of suburban paranoia. Michael Faraday (a face-pinched Jeff Bridges, who spends most of the film on the brink of tears) is a college professor who teaches American history courses on terrorism. He's been a conspiracy freak since his wife, an FBI agent, was killed during a botched raid that feels like a thinly fictionalized reference to the Waco tragedy. After saving the life of his next-door neighbor's child, he initially befriends the family (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack), but soon believes the husband is a terrorist. The first half of the film mocks Faraday: he has no real evidence and is not the most stable of protagonists. Despite the fact that it was government paranoia that got his wife killed, Faraday repeats the same type of behavior. Pellington shifts gears in the second half, however, and for awhile, it seems that the film has simultaneously sunk into a cheap, high-octane brand of Hollywood entertainment and undermined its own point. Arlington Road, though, possesses a stunning ending that's a real gut punch, one that may leave you needing a second viewing to catch all of its smartly executed setup. --Dave McCoy

    Product Description

    A gripping contemporary thriller about the terrible truths that can hide behind everyday appearances, Arlington Road is an intense, edge-of-your-seat journey that reveals just how little we know about the world around us. Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) becomes obsessed with the culture of these groups, especially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack), start acting suspiciously. With each twist, the mystery deepens and the question looms: is Faraday just consumed by fear and driven by paranoia, or has a lethal conspiracy been born on Arlington Road?

    Customer Reviews

    Edge of your seat suspense, great plot twists, great ending, great movie. webmaster@windsurf.net  |  29 reviewers made a similar statement
    With a movie like Arlington Road, you don't get a sense of a real "resolution" to the characters. Steven Chen  |  15 reviewers made a similar statement
    Jeff Bridges overacts and is not believable. Stephen P. Artusi     
    Most Helpful Customer Reviews
    41 of 43 people found the following review helpful
    Format:DVD
    This one kept me riveted throughout; I swear I didn't exhale until the last five minutes. No, I didn't see the ending coming, but it makes absolute sense given the ficton created therein (Roger Ebert is full of PRUNES when he says that it "flies apart in the last 30 minutes;" it not only works, it's the only way the film CAN end and maintain its integrity). The performances are spot-on (including Joan Cusack; hello? The woman is allowed to do something other than "zany" roles-- especially when she does so damned well with a role like this one), the plot is complex and yes, far-fetched, but pulls you in and keeps you in a stranglehold. But as I titled my review, do NOT watch this movie if you have to see good conquer evil/hope springs eternal etc.-- you WON'T LIKE IT. It is good drama, an excellent thriller, and while the nods to Ruby Ridge (NOT Waco,as has been suggested) and Oklahoma City made it timely when it was released, the events of 9-11-01 make it even more disturbing now. Remember, when we believe these acts to be the acts of individuals, acting alone, it only helps us to regain our sense of security; the truth may be more than we can bear.
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    19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ace of all thrillers! December 18, 2005
    Format:DVD
    This movie single handedly made me a huge Jeff Bridges fan. I have always loved the quirky Tim Robbins movies, so this was a double pleasure!

    This is a suspencful, yet not pure eye candy thriller. There are a lot of reali life comaprisons to resistance groups spread all over the US ready to overthrow and show their disconent for the government while they end up punishing innocent people.

    Bridges plays a College professor, who teaches a class on Terrorism, and little does he know that his own life is starting to follow the down spiral of the very bad things he teaches.

    He becomes fast firends with the neighbours across the street as he saves their son one day. As he is enjoying the new friendship weird things keep occuring. There are suspicious things that they dont want him to see in the house, and when he tries to do his own spying to see what is going on, he finds out more than he can handle.

    THis movie is really easy to spoil so I wont say any more, but it's a seat gripping thriller, that I am still pondering in my head.

    The ending was incredible, and not a guesser. It left me with my mouth open, and my thoughts running.

    Wonderful, well done and intelligent movie!
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    33 of 38 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars The scariest movie ever made in broad daylight October 29, 2006
    Format:DVD
    Noon. A suburb of Washington, DC, a street dotted with houses just a shade too small to be McMansions. No one is around.

    Wait --- here comes someone. A boy. White, of course. About 9 years old. Dressed in jeans and high-top sneakers. Walking unsteadily in the middle of the street. Lurching, really.

    And now we see why: blood dots his sneakers, makes a trail on the pavement.

    Luckily, a resident comes along --- Michael Faraday (yes, he has the same name as the great scientist who experimented with electricity and magnetism). He scoops the boy up, rushes him to the hospital. Eventually, the boy's parents show up, grateful beyond measure that the rocket their son set off wasn't more powerful --- and that they have such a good neighbor.

    And now we see the opening credits: distorted photos of suburban life. They look anything but peaceful. Clever movie lovers will recall shots like this in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet." Clearly, something evil thrives alongside the barbeques.

    But how could that be? Faraday (Jeff Bridges) is a history professor who teaches college courses in terrorism. He's widowed --- his wife was an FBI agent, killed in a botched raid --- and only recently dating a graduate student (Hope Davis). All he wants is to raise his nine-year-old son and find some peace.

    And the neighbors, Oliver Lang (Tim Robbins) and his wife Cheryl (Joan Cusack) couldn't be nicer. They sense Faraday's loneliness, and they take steps --- inviting him over, including his son in their family outings.

    Until, one day.....right, the Langs are too perfect. Faraday senses that when a letter for Lang is wrongly delivered to his mailbox. It's forwarded from the University of Pennyslvania., Odd. Didn't Lang say he went to Kansas State?

    And so it begins: a neighbor furtively investigating his neighbor. And finding that there's something wrong in his story, that he may not be who he says he is.

    At the same time, Faraday is teaching his class. That bombing in St. Louis (really, the Oklahoma City bombing). Scary, wasn't it? But remember how much better you felt the next day, when the FBI produced a single suspect: "We want one man, one name, and we want it fast because we want our security back."

    Here's the problem with Farraday: He may teach terrorism, but he's a lousy detective. That is, his suspect knows what's going on. And confronts him. There's a scene in Faraday's back yard that's as menacing as any conversation on film: Faraday looking at a college year book that proves Lang has changed his name, Lang sneaking up on him. And then the reversal of expectation: It's Lang who's mad. Because he has an explanation, a damned good one. And if Faraday only had the decency to ask....

    What's happening? Faraday can't tell. Is Lang really a structural engineer working on a mall in Reston? Or is he a leader of a terrorist cell plotting mass murder in Washington?

    Then Faraday's girlfriend sees....Then Faraday's girlfriend rushes to a pay phone...Then Faraday's girlfriend turns around....

    The secret of thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock explained, is to give people a fear bigger than the fears they live with every day. Movies with special effects and ridiculous plots do this poorly. Movies based on brilliant "what ifs?" make you pee your pants. Like "Rosemary's Baby" --- what if a man makes a deal with Satan? Or "Arlington Road" --- what if your neighbor is Satan?

    There are critics who have called "Arlington Road" overheated and improbable --- especially the end. Well, it fooled me. And terrified me. The cinematography, the music, the rising paranoia of Bridges, the spookily friendly Robbins and Cusack: all the elements work together to make you scared of parking lots, mini-vans, the repairman outside your house.

    As for the end, it forces you to reexamine everything. Was it just good fortune that the Langs were Faraday's neighbors? That letter in Faraday's mailbox --- did the mailman do that? Hey, what about their injured son at the beginning --- could that be...? For God's sake, where did this plot begin?

    When it's over, you'll sit in the dark and shake. "Arlington Road" is that good.
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    Most Recent Customer Reviews
    1.0 out of 5 stars Please read the one star reviews first ...........
    This movie suggests that the FBI bungles routine operations and is almost completely ignorant of larger terrorist threats. Read more
    Published 3 days ago by MovieMusic
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent service and movie!
    The film was old, but very accurate with todays' current society... service was excellent: top-notch! I would highly recommend seeing this movie, but once, but several times.
    Published 5 days ago by Grant W. Doan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must see!
    I saw this movie first when it came out, I loved it then and I loved it when I watched it again after so many years. It is still a great movie to watch.
    Published 24 days ago by Zoya
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Movie
    We had this movie years ago on vhs... so we started looking for it on dvd. Great movie with terrorist plot
    Published 25 days ago by L. Lemaster
    1.0 out of 5 stars Still waiting for that wave of terror from right-wingers
    This film is hilarously awful. We've had 9/11, the London subway bombings, the Lisbon bombings, and just lately, the Boston Marathon bombers. Read more
    Published 1 month ago by Neo Noircat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Movie
    I have seen this movie years ago and knew I had to have it as part of my collection. Very good movie overall and Tim Robbins was convincing as a terrorist.
    Published 1 month ago by mrevans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Liked the Movie
    I really enjoyed the movie. My friend told me to watch it and I thought it was thrilling, especially for an older flick. Worth the buy!
    Published 2 months ago by Lina
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not for me
    I didn't like the way the story went. A little depressing for me. If I had known the subject I wouldn't have got it.
    Published 2 months ago by Donna Mccool
    4.0 out of 5 stars Arlington Road
    This was a great movie, it arrived in plenty of time, and was in great shape, I would recommend this sell to others.
    Published 3 months ago by George D. Steinbrecher
    4.0 out of 5 stars Why No Letterbox?
    This is an excellent paranoid thriller; well-constructed and well-acted. I recommend you find it on DVD since this Amazon version IS NOT LETTERBOXED! There is no excuse for this.
    Published 3 months ago by J. W. Stiles
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