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Released
1999 · FILM

Arlington Road

A grieving college professor becomes obsessed with proving his seemingly perfect neighbors are plotting a terrorist attack, risking his sanity and freedom as he races to expose the deadly conspiracy before it erupts.

Fear Thy Neighbor.

Directed by
Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
117 min
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Michael Faraday, a disheveled college professor, has grown increasingly troubled and paranoid since his wife's accidental death in a failed FBI operation. When a seemingly ordinary couple moves in next door, Michael begins to suspect that there is more to them than appears at first glance.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 43+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Conrad Buff IvShot by Bobby BukowskiScored by Angelo BadalamentiDesigned by Therese Deprez

Box Office

1999 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$41.1M

Budget$31.0M
Worldwide gross$41.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $24.8M 60% of worldwide · International: $16.3M (40%)

Opening weekend: $7.5M 30% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.5M42% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,631 theaters

Also known as

  • Arlington Roadde
  • Arlington Road - L'ingannoit

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