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Rails and Ties
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by Warner Home Video
Sales Rank: 27191
Price: $24.99
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Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden give soaring performances in Rails & Ties, director Alison Eastwood’s moving tale of people in crisis and emotions at the brink. Bacon plays Tom Stark, a train engineer unable to face his wife’s (Harden) illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and – step by step, strength by strength – learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening his heart to a boy who needs the security of a devoted family.
Viewer Reviews
My wife and I looked forward to seeing this move because we have two adopted children, and in our family there are about 36 adopted children. Unfortunately, we were profoundly disappointed in this movie. What could have been a wonderful store was fatally flawed by the open dishonesty of the adults. First, rather than trying to work through the system to adopt David, when he shows up at their doorstep, they take him in and then have to hide David from the authorities. They openly lied to the social worker when she suspected he was with the engineer and his wife. Could any responsible person even remotely think they would have any chance at adoption after deceiving the authorities about the child?
In defense of the engineer's wife, knowing that she was dying of cancer, she would know that she'd have no chance at adoption. However, even that was selfish. Here is a boy who had just lost his mother, and now the engineer's wife was trying to cultivate a loving relationship with the boy - only to leave him with another sudden loss of another significant woman in his life. Such selfishness is inexcusable. Could the boy ever form a mature relationship with a woman . . . to whom he would subconsciously be constantly expecting some tragedy to befall?
For those with adopted kids, the movie is worth watching, but not one I would make an extra effort to seek out. The thought kept occurring to me that this movie must be Kevin Bacon's effort to counteract any lingering impression of him as a child molester in the movie 'The Woodsman.' In the end, he does go to the authorities with David, but we are fortunately spared the separation from him that David would certainly face after his surrogate parents deceived the system.
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