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Rails & Ties
2008 1h 41m PG-13
Drama
6.7
34%
58%
65%
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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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Directed By
Alison Eastwood
Written By
Micky Levy
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Malpaso Productions
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Cast of Rails & Ties
Kevin Bacon
Tom Stark
Marcia Gay Harden
Megan Stark
Miles Heizer
Davey Danner
Marin Hinkle
Renee
Eugene Byrd
Otis Higgs
Bonnie Root
Laura Danner
Kathryn Joosten
Mrs. Brown
Steve Eastin
N.B. Garcia
Laura Cerón
Susan Garcia
Margo Martindale
Judy Neasy
Steven M. Porter
Howie Pugh
Jim Cody Williams
Vince the engineer
Kerri Randles
Rosanna
Stephen Peace
Bartender
Robert Harvey
Administrator # 1
Michael Otis
Administrator # 2
Ernest Harden Jr.
Official # 1
Mike McCaul
Official # 2
Maya Goldsmith
Sheila
Michael Raynor
Detective Christian Fox
Micky Levy
Detective Ann Crane
Nathan Kornelis
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Rails & Ties Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I think somehow the filmmakers lost the way, lost sight of the people inside the plot.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
All the astute acting in the world can't bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The only conceivable reason for Warner Bros. to (barely) release this mush is as a favor to Clint Eastwood, whose daughter Alison directed.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
While it features three strong performance and the debut of a promising filmmaker, the story line is obvious and rather melodramatic.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
One highly unlikely circumstance after another become laughable, preventing you from being moved by the family tragedies depicted. They beg for tears, but a script this chock-full of holes is unlikely to elicit the desired effect.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A modest but emotionally affecting drama.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Scripts [don't] come any sudsier than Micky Levy's awesomely bathetic Rails & Ties.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Rails & Ties is so self-consciously unadorned that it feels as if its director didn't want us to think that she was trying to make a cinematic statement. She hasn't.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
As lovely as some of the footage looks and as committed as are the three lead performances, they serve only to make Rails & Ties play like an exceptionally well-acted and well-made Lifetime movie.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
There's a chance that a good film might have been salvaged from these questionable ingredients, but Eastwood opts for the tried-and-true approach of tearjerkers past.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
It's hard to get over the implausibility of the premise in Micky Levy's script, even though the characters themselves acknowledge that they're in a ridiculous situation.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
There's just not much here to recommend at all.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
Everyone involved will move on to bigger and better things and leave this series of unfortunate events behind on the tracks, waiting for a midnight train to put it out of its considerable misery.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
No doubt about it, Alison Eastwood has picked up a thing or two from her old man. Her debut feature is slow, deliberate, assured, and shot with a graceful feel for place -- none of which is enough to overcome the creaky themes.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The opening act is strong, but the story's trajectory is so obvious this often seems to be traveling along tracks as well -- into a valley of soap suds.
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This directorial debut by Clint's daughter gets stuck in a one-way dramatic track.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's becoming a bit tiresome watching Kevin Bacon suffer, and he isn't done any favors by this thudding weeper.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Mr. Bacon, Ms. Gay Harden and Mr. Heizer are talented enough almost to bring off this fragile conceit -- almost, but not quite.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
A capable but modest directorial debut by Alison Eastwood.
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
The metaphors flow almost as freely as the tears in this sentimental weepie.
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