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Arlington Road (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• You need only subtract a few letters from director Mark Pellington's name to get the word "Arlington."
  
  
• The script for "Arlington Road", written by Ehren Kruger, was discovered when it won the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting competition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This film is only the sixth winner of the competition to actually be produced.
  
  
• The car crash during the climactic chase scene was unplanned; the plan was for the car to duck behind the oncoming bus and complete the left turn. When the collision occurred, the car trunk sprung open, revealing the bright blue sandbags that had been placed there to allow certain stunts. The quick cuts following the collision are necessary to avoid showing the sandbags. Subsequent shots including the car had already been filmed, and show a markedly less-damaged car.
  
  

• SPOILER:The original ending featured a scene in which Grant Faraday figures out his father's fate based on Oliver Lang's strange behavior toward him. It was cut for time.
  
  
• SPOILER:After the bomb goes off at the end of the movie and you see parts of news footage and debris, you see a cinema that is showing the movie. In Dirty Work (1998) two men open a revenge-for-hire business, doing other people's dirty work. At the end of this film, Faraday does Lang's 'dirty work' by planting the bomb for him.
  
  

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