Arlington Road is a 1999 American drama/mystery film, which tells the story of a widowed George Washington University professor who suspects his new neighbors are involved in terrorism and becomes obsessed with foiling their terrorist plot. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis and is directed by Mark Pellington. Ehren Kruger wrote the script, which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowship in 1996. The film was to have been originally released by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, but was sold to Sony Pictures Entertainment before it... opened. The eventual release was the first title for Screen Gems while PolyGram handled foreign rights. Michael Faraday is a college history professor at the George Washington University who has been raising his nine-year-old son, Grant , since the death of his FBI agent wife, who was killed in the line of duty in a scene loosely based on the real-life Ruby Ridge incident.
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| Release date: | March 19, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Mark Pellington |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tom Gorai, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson |
| Editor: | Conrad Buff |
| Music by: | Angelo Badalamenti |
| Cinematography: | Bobby Bukowski |
| Screenplay by: | Ehren Kruger |
| Estimated budget: | $31,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |