Arlington Road

Arlington Road
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMark Pellington
Written byEhren Kruger
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBobby Bukowski
Edited byConrad Buff
Music byAngelo Badalamenti
Production
companies
Distributed byScreen Gems (United States)[1]
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Select international territories)[3]
Release dates
  • March 19, 1999 (1999-03-19) (United Kingdom)
  • July 9, 1999 (1999-07-09) (United States)
Running time
119 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom[1]
  • United States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$31 million
Box office$41.1 million

Arlington Road is a 1999 drama film[1] directed by Mark Pellington and starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, and Hope Davis. The film 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 was heavily inspired by the growing concern in the 1990s regarding the right-wing militia movement, Ruby Ridge, the Waco siege and Oklahoma City bombing.[4]

Ehren Kruger wrote the script, which won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) Nicholl Fellowship in 1996. The film was to have been originally released by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, but the film's United States distribution rights were sold to Sony Pictures Entertainment for $6 million.[5] The eventual release was the second title for Screen Gems (and its first wide theatrical release) while PolyGram (now part of Universal Studios) handled foreign rights.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Arlington Road (1999)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Arlington Road (1999) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  3. ^ "Arlington Road (1998)". BBFC. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  4. ^ Masciotra, David (March 3, 2023). "Arlington Road: The Conspiracy Thriller That Foresaw the Spread of Far-Right Extremism in America". CrimeReads. Literary Hub. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
  5. ^ Natale, Richard (September 15, 1999). "Some Hits and Flops From the Summer Movie Harvest". Los Angeles Times.