Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film that marks the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood, the daughter of Clint Eastwood. The film stars Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden and was written by Micky Levy. Laura Danner is a single mother driven to despair, who decides to commit suicide by driving a car on to a railway track. But she also decides to make this suicide a murder, by also taking her 10-year-old son, Davey, with her, even offering him some tablets beforehand to subdue him though, unbeknownst to her, he spits them out. Davey always keeps with him a train engine, a memento from a father... he never knew. Davey is indeed very knowledgeable about trains. But as his mother drives on to the tracks with the oncoming Blue Coastal passenger train approaching, he tries to drag her out of the car. Unable to do so, he himself manages to jump clear before the train hits the car, killing his mother. Two train crewmen, Tom Stark and Otis Higgs, see the car on the tracks ahead but cannot agree about the best course of action. The latter thinks they should make an emergency stop, but the former thinks that will derail the train, therefore endangering the hundreds of passengers on board.
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| Release date: | October 26, 2007 |
| Directed by: | Alison Eastwood |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Robert Lorenz |
| Music by: | Kyle Eastwood |
| Cinematography: | Tom Stern |