Alison Eastwood, the daughter of actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood, makes her directing debut with this ludicrous melodrama, in which a troubled couple and a newly orphaned boy heal each others' emotional wounds against a backdrop of blunt metaphors.
Tom Stark's (Kevin Bacon) life is trains, and when his wife, Megan (Marcia Gay Harden), receives the news that her recurring breast cancer has entered the terminal stage, he seeks refuge in the engineer's cabin of the Stargazer Express. But what should have been a routine trip proves anything but: As Tom and his associate, Otis (Eugene Byrd), come around a curve while steaming through picturesque Simi ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
101 mins