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Kevin Bacon stars with Marcia Gay Harden as the engineer of the sleek and unstoppable Coast Starlight train as it heads along the California shore -- directly toward the automobile of a young mother who as stopped her car on the tracks in a suicidal act that links the survivors of two families of this physical, emotional and psychological collision. A single violent second changes everything in this haunting and unforgettable drama.

Release: 2007
Running Time: 101 min

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  1. Strong acting and a decent directorial debut by…

    06 December 2008
    Unlikely melodrama about a young boy (newcomer Heizer) who comes into the lives of a train engineer and his dying wife (Bacon and Harden respectively) after an act of fate occurs binding the three together through their grief. Actress Allison Eastwood – daughter of Clint – parallels her father in the film-making process in this directorial debut that comes across as a Lifetime TV Movie but she employs many of his skills (i.e. soft fades to black, expert acting, subtle camera movements) that overlook the script's shortcomings.

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