Arlington Road | | Cast : | Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack | | Director : | Mark Pellington | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 09, 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | March 23, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 14, 2005 | | Summary | Hey honey, come see what the neighbors are doing.... | Content
 | Arlington Road is a great thriller. The ending was somewhat predictable, but the rest of the movie is worth the price of admission. Jeff Bridges is great as the paranoid widower. He is an expert on native born terrorism who is haunted by the death of his FBI wife. But, Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack as the happy, creepy, couple next door really make this movie. And those Hitler Youth kids don't hurt either. This film does cause the viewer to ask some interesting questions about privacy, a person's past, and how we are all affected by laws like the Patriot Act. If you like movies about mysterious neighbors get a copy of Arlington Road. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | Those scary white republicans! | Content
| What shocks me about many of the movie reviews written on these boards is the apparent blindness to possible political manipulation or propaganda that might exist in any well known movie. Is that to say that hollywood is politcally neutral? Is tim robbins politically neutral? What is the message here? That being white, republican and christian is a dangerous thing? That those who would blow up innocent children are not that far removed from the typical conservative? Certainly. You would have to be an idiot not to see that.
Consider two quotes in this film. One by faraday the bridges character who is teaching a class on domestic terrorism. Referring to the oklahoma city bombing which is depited here as the st luois bombimg faraday puts forth his theory that the killer did not act alone. He says that the killer was a "moderate republican." What does that mean? That a real conservative can be expected to kill 300 people? In another quote the robbin's character, the terrorist says "there are millions of us" and indeed it seems that they are. These pasty faced ultra pale people are everywhere in this film manipulating your children in a boy scout group, following you everywhere you go and listening in on your phone calls. The bad guys are so smart and so large in number that in the end they not only succeed in blowing up a federal building but are able to kill and pin the crime on faraday.
This film a fairly taut thriller with a pleasantly unusaul ending. The good guy doesn't win. Yes it is intense with many ultra close up shots so that you can't see who may be in the background. At first faraday is a little suspicious of his neighbors though he has little reason to be suspicious. And while faraday is far too suspicous it almost seems plausable because of his background as a teacher of terrorists and the fact his fbi wife was killed by them. Still he jumpes to conclusions and finds out what is about to take place but he can't stop it.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 23, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent Thriller, overlooked by many! | Content
| This movie is a trip, it has suspense, action, drama, mystery, and is powerfully moving. It's one of those that has a GREAT ending, though it does not end the way you would hope it would, making it all the more realistic! I recommend this to rent sometime. I think you'll enjoy it!
In this suspenseful 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? |
| Rating | | | Date | May 02, 2005 | | Summary | Suspense! | Content
| Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins give Oscar-like performances in this chilling tale. It is a sobering look at home-grown terrorism and how it can be found in our own back yard. The movie makes one wonder if another Oklahoma City incident is possible. How many people hate America, using the government as their demon? In this bone-chilling tale, the good guys don't always win, and that is the most sobering part of the film. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 28, 2005 | | Summary | Great movie with a surprising ending | Content
| i always saw previews for this movie on other movies so i finally decided to rent it. I thought it was a great movie with great acting and a surprising ending. I then went out and bought it. It's well worth the rent. Unless of course you've already rented it, then you should buy it. |
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