Rails and Ties
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Actor: Ernest Harden Jr., Eugene Byrd, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Steve EastinBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Tom Stern
Composer: Kyle Eastwood
Composer: Michael Stevens
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Rails and Ties
Movie Review: Editing Needs To Be Tighter, Some Really Bad Support Acting
Summary: 3 Stars
So this is an Eastwood family movie, Allison directs, Clint produces, and Kyle writes the soundtrack. Sadly there wasn't an Eastwood that can edit. The film could be 20 minutes shorter and lose absolutely nothing in emotional build up or impact. Honestly, this is a marginally 1 hour movie.
The good, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, and the boy Miles Heizer. Miles did a remarkably good job at his age, he was believable as a boy that age.
The bad, just about every other character. Sadly they all seemed to be reading their lines.
The train scenes, and Oh I love my trains, were not really all that wonderful. The train thread didn't work very well with the story line. There wasn't much of a metaphor here to really sink your teeth into.
My apologies to those that really loved this film and cried. I just didn't buy it. Didn't really love these characters enough to care what happened to them. It was a very sad movie that was just way too predictable.
Summary of Rails and Ties
Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties director Alison Eastwood?s moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark a train engineer unable to face his wife?s (Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and ? step by step strength by strength ? learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA/FAMILY LIFE UPC:?085391176282 Manufacturer No:?117628Alison Eastwood (Clint's daughter) makes an impressive directorial debut with the moving Rails & Ties, an unusual drama about the redemption of three tragic characters through a makeshift family. Kevin Bacon stars as Tom, a locomotive engineer whose distraction over his wife's terminal cancer brings doubts about his judgment when he runs into a suicidal woman who parks her car on train tracks. Forced to take time off, Tom confronts his growing distance from Megan (Marcia Gay Harden), who has little time left and wants him, despite his resistance, to be with her. Everything changes when Davey (Miles Heizer), the young son of the dead woman, flees from an abusive foster home and finds his way to Tom, where a confrontation leads to a desperate connection between the boy and childless Megan and Tom. Eastwood's handsome and tender film explores the reawakening of hope under the shadow of death, without slipping into bathos, distracting viewers with the obvious implausibility of the situation, or allowing attention to drift during one or two of screenwriter Micky Levy's weaker scenes. Harden and Bacon (whose increasingly grizzled look and laconic performance here recall the elder Eastwood) are very good as would-be parents who find love again at the 11th hour. --Tom Keogh
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