Arlington Road 1999, Rated R Columbia/Tristar Home Video

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Starring Tim Robbins, Jeff Bridges. Released to DVD on October 26, 1999.

Arlington Road has a running time of 126 minutes. Roughly 106 of those minutes are 106 of the most boring, seeringly agonizing, monotonous, tedious and tiresome minutes in Hollywood's long history. With tears of pain welling in my eyes, I fought to get to the climax of Arlington Road, reasoning that it couldn't be any worse than the rest of the film. However, I was thrown for a loop as the last 20 minutes turned out to be as poignant, fascinating and eerily thought provoking, as the first 106 were arduous. Jeff Bridges plays Michael Faraday, a college professor teaching paranoia to his students. When Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack) move into the neighborhood, Faraday smells something fishy. Nobody else believes him. The premise is somewhat standard, the ending to Mark Pellington's film is anything but.