

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.
Acting
Robbins' chilling normalcy vs. Bridges' unraveling sanity.
Direction
Pellington turns cul-de-sacs into panic rooms.
Writing
Ending so brutal studios tried to change it.

Director
Mark Pellington
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Studio executives hated the downbeat ending and tested an alternate where Faraday saves the day. It bombed with audiences. The bleak version stayed.
Released before Columbine but after Oklahoma City, it captures a specific post-Waco, pre-9/11 American anxiety about domestic terrorism that feels almost prescient now.
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