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Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties, director Alison Eastwoods moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark, a train engineer unable to face his wifes (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.
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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 wifes 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. Eastwoods 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 Levys 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
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches; 0.4 ounces
- Director : Alison Eastwood
- Media Format : Widescreen
- Run time : 101 minutes
- Release date : June 1, 2008
- Actors : Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Marin Hinkle, Eugene Byrd
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Studio : Warner Home Video
