| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | ARLINGTON ROAD (1997) |
| Director | Mark Pellington |
| Writer | Ehren Kruger |
| Lead Actor | Jeff Bridges |
| Cast | Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack |
| Genre | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Release Date | July 9, 1999 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 57m(117 min) |
| Budget | $31 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 7.2/10 |
REVIEW
Jeff Bridges is a widowed and wary academic terrorism expert in Reston, Virginia, whose son gets overly friendly with suspicious neighbors Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack. Jeff and his girlfriend (Hope Davis) get too close to the truth.
This early section drags, but director Mark Pellington throttles the last third of the movie into white knuckle action as Jeff tries to prevent the sinister conspirators from blowing up the F.B.I. headquarters in Washington. Arlington belongs to the cinema of the sardonic and unsettling where gloomy honesty rules.
It’s interesting to know that this script by first time writer Ehren Kruger won Hollywood’s prestigious Nicholl competition in 1996. It flows from the traumas of Ruby Ridge and Oklahoma City, which may be too easily slipping from memory.
While this film portrays native terrorists as clever and formidable, it offers no easy heroes and no easy answers. Bridges is intense, and Robbins, playing one of his patented genial lunatics, is a suitable foe. Flawed but hair raising torn from the headlines thriller, for mature audiences.
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