Civic Duty

A thriller in which an accountant (Six Feet Under's Peter Krause), bombarded by media white noise about terrorism, is overcome with paranoia when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door. "The point where [protagonist] Terry Allen at last snaps comes as an assault on the audience as well as both actors; from there on the film is two men locked in a room voicing every painful, dark worry that lurks in the minds of many Americans, of every origin." (Premiere)