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Name: Arlington Road
Director: Mark Pellington
Genre: crime, drama, mystery, thriller
Released: 1999
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Rating: 7.2

Arlington Road has an iRankMovies score of 67.7/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Arlington Road (1999)

Fear Thy Neighbor.

Release:1999

Runtime:1h 57m

Country:United States

Director:Mark Pellington

Language:English

Genre

CrimeDramaMystery

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Keywords

ArmyWashington Dc UsaBombWifePoliticsProfessorFbiParanoia

iRank68

Arlington Road rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.2/10· 97K votes

Rotten Tomatoes62%

Metacritic65%

TMDb7.037/10· 1K votes

With 62% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.2/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Arlington Road

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

Cast of Arlington Road

Jeff Bridges
as Michael Faraday
Tim Robbins
as Oliver Lang
Joan Cusack
as Cheryl Lang
Hope Davis
as Brooke Wolfe
Robert Gossett
as FBI Agent Whit Carver
Mason Gamble
as Brady Lang
Spencer Treat Clark
as Grant Faraday
Stanley Anderson
as Dr. Archer Scobee
Lee Stringer
as Orderly
Darryl Cox
as Troopmaster
V
Viviane Vives
as Nurse
Loyd Catlett
as Delivery Man

Arlington Road facts

Budget: $31M
Box office: $41.1M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Director constructs paranoid thriller tension with escalating psychological dread
•Complex plot twists maintain viewer engagement throughout narrative progression
•Federal agent protagonist brings authenticity to intelligence agency storyline