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Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century. (PG-13, 102 min.)
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Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Golden Globe-nominee Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th century America. Orphaned at a young age, Robert grows into adulthood among the towering forests of the Pacific Northwest, where he helps expand the nation’s railroad empire alongside men as unforgettable as the landscapes they inhabit. After a tender courtship, he marries Gladys (Academy Award-nominee Felicity Jones) and they build a home together, though his work often takes him far from her and their young daughter. When his life takes an unexpected turn, Robert finds beauty, brutality and newfound meaning for the forests and trees he has felled.
An ode to a vanishing way of life, an ever-evolving world, and to the extraordinary possibilities that exist within even the most simple of existences, Train Dreams captures a time and place that are now long gone, and the people who built a bridge to a future they could only dream of. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Clint Bentley with a screenplay by Bentley and Academy Award-nominee Greg Kwedar, the writing team behind Sing Sing, the film also stars Academy Award-nominees William H. Macy and Kerry Condon. [Netflix]
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., Felicity Jones
Director: Clint Bentley
Genre: Drama
"Beautiful, moving, and thoughtful."
— Rebecca, Onion Slate
"A thoroughly engrossing period piece of dreamy details."
— Jacob Oller, AV Club
"If you can see it in a theater you should, because it is so extraordinarily beautiful."
— Christy Lemire, FilmWeek (LAist)
"It’s a film that all but welcomes and nurtures, telling us that, in the end, we all matter."
— Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
"If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it"
— Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com
"Haunting, serenely composed and beautiful, this is an elegy for a life and a country that America used to be. "
— John Nugent, Empire Magazine
"At the risk of gushing, I adored this perfectly formed movie. It elevates Bentley into the league of essential American filmmakers."
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"The sparse, stark poetry of Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams is etched into every frame of this superb adaptation by Clint Bentley."
— Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)
"A poignant and poetic drama about the things that vanish and those that remain, and the finest offering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"Bentley renders Idaho and this way of life around the turn of the 20th century in such a mystical and mysterious way, it almost seems like science fiction."
— Adam Kempenaar, Filmspotting
"The story of a country that's forever marching toward the future, rebuilding and redefining itself, even as the voices of its past cry out to be remembered."
— Robert Levin, Newsday
"Train Dreams is stunning to look at, the kind of film where each blade of grass, each jagged tree branch, each mini ripple of a rushing river, seems to sing out as an individual."
— Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
"Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar capture the grandeur, tragedy and intimacy of Johnson’s work without slipping into nostalgia for an idealised kind of West inhabited by John Wayne."
— Laura Venning, Little White Lies
"The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson’s story... The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America."
— John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
"This is a thoughtful, literary and visually sumptuous adaptation. Joel Edgerton’s everyman protagonist carries this saga of loss amid the wilderness with the weight of a world being tamed before his astonished eyes."
— Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here."
— David Fear, Rolling Stone
"Joel Edgerton brings a quiet soulfulness to 'Train Dreams' that perfectly complements director Clint Bentley's meditative portrait of an unassuming logger making his way through early 20th century America, and beyond."
— Adam Graham, Detroit News
"Director Clint Bentley and his co-writer Greg Kwedar...capture the plaintive beauty of Grainier’s life on the margins of 20th-century progress without hamming up the romance or laying on the grit; the airy, dappled photography is frequently stunning."
— Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A Western epic of breathtaking visual splendor and formidable lyrical cinematic poetry, it’s a work containing all the wondrous, devastating layers of an entire life, which it explores with a gentle grace without hiding from the agony that comes with it."
— Chase Hutchinson, TheWrap
