Movie Review

Rails & Ties (2007)

Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman | Oct 24, 2007

Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

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Details Limited Release: Oct 26, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden

$OFF THE RAILS Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden suffer through Alison Eastwood\'s weeper Rails & Ties, Marcia Gay Harden, ...$

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OFF THE RAILS Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden suffer through Alison Eastwood's weeper

It's becoming a bit tiresome watching Kevin Bacon suffer, and he isn't done any favors by this thudding weeper, which Alison Eastwood (Clint's daughter) directed. Bacon plays an engineer who fails to stop his passenger train from slamming into a car, killing the depressed woman who planted it on the tracks. It's contrived enough that Bacon illegally ''adopts'' the woman's young son. Did I mention that his wife (Marcia Gay Harden) has terminal cancer? Rails & Ties is like one bad TV movie that slammed into another. C

Originally posted Oct 24, 2007 Published in issue #962 Nov 02, 2007 Order article reprints

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