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44 out of 100
- The website's consensus reads: "Despite the strong cast, Rails & Ties is an emotionally overwrought, not entirely believable melodrama." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 44 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
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Nov 8, 2007 · 5 min read. Tragedy befalls a railroad engineer (Kevin Bacon) and his neglected wife (Marcia Gay Harden) in Rails Ties. Sometimes there’s a movie that has better things in it than the underlying material deserves. Alison Eastwood ‘s “Rails & Ties” is a movie like that.
Rails & Ties: Directed by Alison Eastwood. With Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer, Marin Hinkle. A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
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- Drama
- Alison Eastwood
- 2008-04-18
Oct 26, 2007 · PG-13. 1h 41m. By Manohla Dargis. Oct. 26, 2007. The actress Alison Eastwood’s first feature as a director, “Rails & Ties,” has a functional visual style and an abundance of drama that would...
- Alison Eastwood
Engineer Tom Stark (Kevin Bacon) kills a suicidal woman when his train slams into her car. Suspended from his job, he must confront his wife Megan's (Marcia Gay Harden) illness finally, but...
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- Alison Eastwood
- PG-13
- Kevin Bacon
Rails & Ties is a 2007 American drama film directed by Alison Eastwood and written by Micky Levy. It tells the story of a young boy and his mentally-ill widowed mother who commits suicide in her car by parking on a railroad track.
RAILS & TIES, under the guidance of first time director Alison Eastwood, tackles an implausible subject of multiple tragedies resulting in repairing personal breaks and with the able assistance of a groups of excellent actors makes a finely tune, sensitive study of little lives struggling against major odds.
Review by KenR ★★★½. Rails and Ties (Spoiler free review) This is quite a brave production for its year of release. It features some convincing dialogue within its unusual situations and offers sensitive direction, excellent cinematography, and suburb performances from its main cast.
