Arlington Road [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

In this tense thriller, a man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be -- and their secrets could be deadly. Michael Faraday (played by Jeff Bridges) is a college professor whose wife, an FBI agent, was killed in the line of duty by members of an extremist right-wing terrorist group, leaving him to raise their nine-year-old son by himself. One day, he saves the life of a boy he sees on the street. The child turns out to be the son of his new neighbors, Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack). Michael soon becomes friendly with the grateful Langs, who seem as cheerfully bland as anyone could hope from denizens of suburbia. But the better Michael gets to know Oliver, the more he becomes convinced that something isn't quite right; Oliver seems almost too clean and perfect, and Michael begins to notice that small details in Oliver's stories don't quite add up. The question is whether Michael's well-founded paranoia about the radical right is getting the better of him, or are the Langs up to something a lot more sinister than their cheerful smiles and manicured lawn would suggest? Ehren Kruger's screenplay for Arlington Road won the Motion Picture Academy's Nicholl Fellowship prize in 1996; the film was the second directorial effort for Mark Pellington, who debuted with Going All the Way. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: ABC
• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: PCM Stereo
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Features:
  • Commentary With Director and Jeff Bridges
  • Hidden Vulnerability: The Making of Arlington Road
  • Alternate Ending.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Jeff Bridges - Faraday
       Tim Robbins - Oliver Lang
       Joan Cusack - Cheryl Lang
       Hope Davis - Brooke Wolf
       Robert Gossett - FBI Agent Whit Carver
       Mason Gamble - Brady Lang
       Spencer Treat Clark - Grant Faraday
       Stanley Anderson - Dr. Archer Scobee

• Director:

  Mark Pellington

• Producer:

  Peter Samuelson, Marc Samuelson, Tom Gorai

• Screenwriter:

  Ehren Kruger

• Cinematographer:

  Bobby Bukowski

• Composer (Music Score):

  Angelo Badalamenti, Tomandandy

• Editor:

  Conrad Buff

• Production Designer:

  Therese DePrez

• Art Director:

  David Stein

• Co-producer:

  Jean Higgins, Richard S. Wright

• Associate Producer:

  Ellen Dux, James McQuaide

• Executive Producer:

  Tom Rosenberg, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Ted Tannenbaum, Judd Malkin, Ed Ross

• Set Designer:

  Barbara Haberecht

• Costume Designer:

  Jennifer Barrett-Pellington

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Kathleen Cusack

• First Assistant Director:

  Jerry Grandey, William Paul Clark

• Casting:

  Ellen Chenoweth

• Second Unit Director:

  Vince Deadrick, Jr.

• Second Unit Director Of Photogra:

  Scott Smith