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Like a lot of 26 year olds, Ehren Kruger- a 1990 graduate of Alexandria's Thomas Jefferson high School for Science and Technology dreamed of writing Hollywood Screenplays. Unlike a lot of them, he's actually done it. Kruger's new thriller, "Arlington Road," starring Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, and Joan Cusack, opens today. Kruger wrote the movie-which is set in Reston but was Filmed Houston back in 1996. "I wanted to write a film that was about the suburbs and the neighbors and the veneer of sameness and normalcy in those communities," he told us from the Hollywood set of "Scream 3," another of in his oeuvre. Kruger's movie "Reindeer Games," starring Ben Affleck and Gary Sinese debuts in December. He's been writing screenplays since high school, where "I didn't particularly have an affinity for the chemistry and physics and robotic labs, so my only escape was in the TV production lab," He grew up in Alexandria with parents Stanly and Ann, both administrators at the Department of Education until they moved three years ago to southwest Virginia. "Arlington Road" is the first of Kruger's scripts to make it to the big screen. "It's a thrill" he said. "I wish I had more time to be excited." All
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