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Arlington Road
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Arlington Road is a 1999 thriller movie, in which a George Washington University professor suspects his new neighbors are planning a terrorist attack.The title refers to a street of wealthy people in Bethesda, Maryland, about five miles from Washington, D.C.. Equivalent to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.The movie stars Jeff Bridges as George Washington University history professor Michael Faraday, who is an expert on domestic terrorism, and whose wife died in a failed FBI mission some years earlier. He has a young son, a girlfriend (played by Hope Davis) and keeps in touch with his wife's former FBI partner Whit Carver, played by Robert Gossett. One day he begins to suspect his next-door neighbors (played by Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack) to be terrorists, based on a number of incidents that have occurred around them, including their son being hospitalized after an accident involving a firecracker. Nobody will believe him though, finding his ideas crazy and paranoid, pointing the finger at his being unable to recover from the trauma he experienced when his wife died in the manner she did.The film notably marks the wide feature debut for Screen Gems as a label for Sony Pictures. | |
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Fall Guy | |
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Fall Guy: In each of their bombings, the Lang's evade suspicion by framing an innocent man as the sole terrorist responsible. This requires killing them as alive, their fall guy can point the authorities in their direction and unravel everything. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer pretty much gives the entire film away, even the ending. Both director Mark Pellington and lead Jeff Bridges have mentioned it several times in their commentary for the film. The DVD cover is also a bit of a give away too. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The terrorist bombing that the professor is lecturing about to his class suspiciously resembles the Real Life Oklahoma City bombing. Also, the incident which caused the death of his wife heavily resembles Ruby Ridge. | |
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Right Behind Me | |
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Right Behind Me: Michael is researching Oliver on the Kansas City Star archives at GWU when Oliver shows up. | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else! | |
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They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Oliver and Cheryl just seem like normal, suburban Americans (albeit who have a troubled young son). Then it turns out they're far-right terrorists. | |
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May–December Romance | |
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May–December Romance: Brooke is in her mid-20s, while Jeff Bridges was 50 at the time (and it's implied that Faraday is the same age). | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Not only were Michael's attempts at saving everyone unsuccessful, but he took the blame for everything posthumously, and left his son an orphan. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Poor, POOR Grant Faraday. First, his mother Leah was killed in a failed FBI mission. Then, Brooke, his would-be-stepmom, is murdered by Cheryl Lang. Finally, his father Michael is killed in a bombing and is framed for it by the real culprits (the Langs), and Grant, now an orphan, is last seen being driven off to live with relatives. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Not only does the bad guy succeed in his plans, the good guy takes the fall. | |
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Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal | |
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Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: Dean Scobee's father is certain his son didn't bomb the Roosevelt Federal Building in St. Louis because he loved working with kids and knew there was a daycare center in the building. | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity | |
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Hero with Bad Publicity: Michael not only dies in the bombing he tried to stop, but is posthumously framed for it, being immortalized as the mastermind of the worst terrorist attack in American history (the film came out 2 years before 9/11). | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Michael himself at the end. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: The Big Bad knew Jeff Bridges would try his best to stop him, not realizing he was making himself look suspicious to other people. After the bombing, it was easy for people to believe Jeff Bridges acted alone, based on his own actions trying to save everyone. | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Brooke is killed off in a convenient car 'accident' after discovering too much. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
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Killed Offscreen: Brooke dies this way at Cheryl’s hands. And it’s made to look like a car accident. | |
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Killed to Uphold the Masquerade | |
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Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Brooke finds out too much. Just before having a convenient fatal car accident, she had left a message on his answering machine regarding her revelation before dying, but this is also erased by the bad guys. | |
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Hostage Situation | |
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Hostage Situation: The professor's son is kidnapped to force the professor into compliance. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: The Lang's killed children in the St. Louis bombing and threaten to hurt Grant; played straight by the FBI during the siege that took the life of Michael's wife (well, the kid was armed to be fair). | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: And how! Michael, Whit, and almost two-hundred others die in the bombing of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, and Michael is posthumously framed for the attack by the actual culprits, the Lang's, who get away with everything. Michael's failure also means Dean Scobee's name remains besmirched. Grant survives, but now his would-be stepmother and his father have both died, and he now has to live with relatives, never knowing his father was framed and wrongly living with the stigma of being the son of the man responsible for the worst terrorist attack in American history. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Whit to Michael only seconds before the bomb is revealed to be in his car and not the van. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Big Bad, his friends and associates, even his wife. | |
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Vertigo Effect | |
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Vertigo Effect: Occurs when Michael goes to the mall where Brooke made her final phone call and sees the Liberty Delivery Service van passing in the window. | |
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I Work Alone | |
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I Work Alone: The Lang's stage both of their attacks as being perpetrated by a single person. | |
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Patched Together from the Headlines | |
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Patched Together from the Headlines: Michael's deceased wife Leah is killed in a botched FBI militia standoff over stockpiled guns that is essentially.Ruby Ridge, which is just the inciting incident that places her husband and son as next-door neighbors to a family who commit crimes loosely based on Timothy McVeigh's. | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else? | |
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Have You Told Anyone Else?: The Lang's manage to evade suspicion for the FBI bombing due to everyone who Michael voiced his suspicions to and those who were with him in the FBI garage and heard him yelling his son's name being killed in or prior to the bombing. | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
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Sacrificial Lion: This time, it's the protagonist. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: The Big Bad takes Michael's son hostage, which is the point Michael goes off the deep end for fear of losing him. | |
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He Knows Too Much | |
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He Knows Too Much: The reason why the Langs want to kill Michael and why they kill Brooke. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: The professor's wife and the mother of his son was revealed to be a former FBI agent killed in the line of duty, which gives the Big Bad the forged motive at the end. Also, Brooke, the professor’s new girlfriend, is murdered by the villains offscreen. | |
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Chessmaster | |
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Chess Master: The villains, particularly Tim Robbins' character as he clearly knows enough about the protagonist to subtly influence his moves. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: William Fenimore Sr., if Oliver is to be believed. | |
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Dead Person Impersonation | |
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Dead Person Impersonation: Oliver Lang was the name of the Big Bad's best friend growing up. William Fenimore Jr. took his name when Oliver died at 25 to honor him, for his identity and to cover up the Big Bad's past crimes. It was also somewhat implied he killed his friend, who died in a "hunting accident". | |
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Unwitting Pawn | |
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Unwitting Pawn: Michael. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: Michael is an angry, nervous wreck, even before he realized the truth about his neighbors, due to the death of his wife. When he starts to put two and two together, he grows even more emotionally unstable and moody. His wife's FBI colleague, though genuinely concerned and helpful from the beginning, has a hard time with Michael's theories and instability. By the time the FBI gets involved, it's too late. | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want Of A Nail: While the Lang's organization might still have targeted the J. Edgar Hoover Building regardless, had the FBI not screwed up at Copper Creek, they might never have targeted Michael as their fall guy as there would be no forged motive without Leah Faraday's death. Of course, Leah, Whit, and possibly Michael if he was visiting Leah at the offices at the time might still have died in the bombing. In addition, Brooke would still be alive as she and Michael would never have started a relationship had Leah lived. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: Joan Cusack's character Cheryl Lang is a Type C, played to much creepiness. | |
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Big Bad | |
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The Big Bad, who's real name is William Fenimore Jr., says his family farm went broke after the government 'appropriated' the river that ran through it 'for other uses'. His father then killed himself and made it look like a tractor accident so the family could claim the life insurance. He left a note for William explaining everything. William built the pipe bomb to get back at the government. Although it's unclear if his story is true or not. | |
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Gambit Roulette | |
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Gambit Roulette: As Roger Ebert pointed out in his review regarding the terrorist plot: | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In one of his lectures, Michael discusses a terrorist attack supposedly perpetrated by a single individual with no ties to extremist organizations whatsoever, which is how the terrorist attack at the end is made to look like. Moreover, Michael alone is blamed for it. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
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Cruel Twist Ending: Is it even possible to imagine a crueler ending to this movie? | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Well yeah, the bad guy won, and is implied to have been pulling off such operations since well before the story begins. | |
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Clear My Name | |
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Clear My Name: Subverted with Dean Scobee, the Lang's fall guy for the St. Louis IRS bombing. In any other movie, Michael would've proved the Lang's guilt and Dean's innocence. Instead, Michael fails and becomes a fall guy himself, with the world still believing Dean to be a lone-wolf terrorist come the film's end. | |
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Scout-Out | |
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Scout-Out: The Big Bad convinces the professor to enroll his kid into a Scout-like organization that his son is part of. It is later revealed that the father of a supposed terrorist mentioned earlier in the professor's class was also a member of this scouting organization. The common thread? The same scoutmaster. Later the professor's kid is kidnapped by the terrorists while on a camping trip with said scouting organization. | |
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Really Dead Montage | |
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Really Dead Montage: Sort of, the news reports afterward painting the professor as the bad guy. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: The death of the professor's wife during a failed FBI mission is implied to be this in the montage at the end. Subverted because it was a fabrication (the part about the death being a Freudian excuse, not the death itself)- the professor was framed. The Big Bad, who's real name is William Fenimore Jr., says his family farm went broke after the government 'appropriated' the river that ran through it 'for other uses'. His father then killed himself and made it look like a tractor accident so the family could claim the life insurance. He left a note for William explaining everything. William built the pipe bomb to get back at the government. Although it's unclear if his story is true or not. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: To be fair it is a rather wild accusation and the professor didn't really have any solid evidence. | |
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Western Terrorists | |
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Western Terrorists: The antagonists appear to be part of an anti-government right-wing terrorist organization, however the details are left vague. | |
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Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: The Lang's frame-ups of Michael Faraday and Dean Scobee for the FBI and St. Louis bombings only work because they are killed in the attacks, preventing them from pointing the authorities in the Lang's direction. | |
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"Ray of Hope" Ending: A deleted scene that follows the FBI bombing implies that Grant knows his father was framed by the Langs. While this is not enough to prove Michael's innocence, it offers some consolation that Grant knows his father wasn't a murderer. | |
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History Repeats | |
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History Repeats: Like in St. Louis, the Lang's blow up a federal building and frame an innocent man for it. | |
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Creepy Monotone: Oliver Lang. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Leah Faraday | |
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Suicide Attack | |
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Suicide Attack: The Langs stage the IRS and FBI bombings as these, making sure all the evidence leads back to a single person they've chosen as their fall guy. | |
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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: The terrorist's son to a small extent is this, saying "I'm sorry, that's classified information" in a rather militaristic manner, also building a 'soldier's compound' rather than simply a fort, all of which makes the professor suspicious (for good reason) and makes him think there's something wrong. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: The movie begins with Michael coming across Oliver's son walking down the middle of the road in a daze with a shredded hand as a result of a firecracker mishap. He then tries with his might to rush him to a hospital. | |
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Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The nice middle-class suburban family next door turn out to be part of an organization like this, and very dangerous ones, as they're actual terrorists.. | |
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