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Track 29 (1988) 5.7
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a ... See full summary » Director:Nicolas RoegWriter:Dennis Potter |
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Linda Henry
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Arlanda
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Nurse Stein
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Dr. Bernard Fairmont
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Trucker
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Vance Colvig Jr. | ... |
Mr. Ennis
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Redneck
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Counterman
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Old Man
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A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 July 1988 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Afsporet See more »Box Office
Budget:
$5,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$429,028 (USA)Company Credits
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Music by Theodore Morse
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Performed by Gary Oldman
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The young Linda is seen with posters of George Harrison (executive producer of the film) and 'David Bowie (I)' (star of Nicolas Roeg's hit The Man Who Fell to Earth) on her bedroom wall. See more »Soundtracks
"M-O-T-H-E-R (a Word That Means the World to Me)"Music by Theodore Morse
Lyrics by Howard Johnson
Performed by Gary Oldman
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The plot is wacky enough to promise a great film: a repressed alcoholic middle-class housewife with incestuous tendencies, married to a doctor with infantilism tendencies, encounters a young English guy who turns out to be her lost son (fruit of a teenage rape, whom she had to give for adoption). But it's not clear what's real & what's not. Freud would be proud.
The bad thing is seeing how generic Hollywood-ian Nicolas Roeg's direction has become. There really is very little here that reminds of "Don't Look Now" or "Bad Timing". Not that it's not worth watching. The spanking sequence is hilariously disturbing, the film has the feel of a hysterically surreal 80's soap opera, and the interplay between past, present, reality & fantasy is sometimes inspired.
In fact David Lynch ended up copying lots of stuff from here, particularly on "Twin Peaks" and "Lost Highway". Notice for example the demonic rape scene, or the merging of the truck driver and lost son characters.