Film

Arlington Road 1999

Directed by Mark Pellington

  • Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
  • 117 min
  • R

Fear Thy Neighbor.

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.

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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.

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