In this entertaining thriller, an obsessed college professor (the ever-watchable Jeff Bridges), who lectures on the history of terrorism, finds himself drawn helplessly into a shady world of violence.

After the death of his FBI agent wife, he now lives with his 10-year-old son in a leafy Washington DC suburb. But Bridges escapes his grief when he begins voicing suspicions about his new neighbours (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack).