Rails and Ties
by Alison Eastwood
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Actor: Eugene Byrd, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Marin Hinkle, Miles HeizerDirector: Alison Eastwood
Brand: BACON,KEVIN
Writer: Micky Levy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
Published: 2008-06-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 117628
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- 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 h
Movie Reviews of Rails and Ties
Movie Review: A Smart, Authentic, Emotional Ride
Summary: 5 Stars
RAILS AND TIES is a quiet, well-crafted film that captures the complicated, conflicting emotions people undergo when confronted with terminal cancer. But it's no disease-of-the-week weeper. Instead, it's a gutsy tale of a strong woman (Marcia Gay Harden) who must reassess her life after medical science has ultimately failed her. Her anguished husband (Kevin Bacon) buries himself in his job as a railroad conductor--until a suicidal woman parks her car in front of his oncoming train. Forced to take a leave of absence while the incident is being investigated, Bacon's character must now stay at home and confront his wife's illness.
The main thrust of the story concerns the couple's encounter with the suicide victim's preteen son (Miles Heizer) with whom they develop a parental bond. Although this twist creates new conflicts for the couple, it rekindles their lost relationship--as well as drives the film forward towards its life-affirming conclusion.
The film's performances are superb, and Alison Eastwood's direction is graceful and sublime. Micky Levy's screenplay creates characters that are truly believable and 3-dimensional, and brings us into their world so deeply that we don't want to leave.
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.Alison 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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