Arlington Road
First screened in August 2020
Director: Mark Pellington. Cast: Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Hope Davis, Robert Gossett, Spencer Treat Clark, Mason Gamble, Laura Poe, Stanley Anderson, Darryl Cox, Jenni Tooley. Screenplay: Ehren Kruger. Twitter Capsule:
Direction less wily than script. I question some key casting. But both theme and structure are impressively gutsy.
VOR:④
Hard to imagine any U.S. studio film taking these risks or (especially) ending this way in the decades since. A combustible cultural text.
