Unfortunately, here you get a Lifetime original movie with a bigger budget.

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Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

In common with her famous actor/filmmaker father, Ms. Eastwood seems to have an instinctual grasp of the petty grievances and triumphs of working-class American life.

| Apr 28, 2011

Feels so forced and determined to convey a certain emotion that its authenticity is lost. And when there's no sense of authenticity, there's no emotional attachment.

| Jun 28, 2008

Kevin Bacon turns in a solid, attention grabbing performance as a rigid, scornful man in a deep funk just trying to cling to a familiar world disintegrating all around him.

| Jun 20, 2008

DVD is the perfect place for a movie like Rails & Ties. Somehow it's easier to block out the often forced nature of the plot and just enjoy the rich performances and the humane themes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2008

Alison Eastwood has created a film of quiet delicacy, something fragile yet resolute, and shot through with a life affirming thread that is brave enough to suggest that sometimes life does indeed blossom from tragedy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2008

It's hard to get over the implausibility of the premise in Micky Levy's script, even though the characters themselves acknowledge that they're in a ridiculous situation.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2008

The metaphors flow almost as freely as the tears in this sentimental weepie.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 27, 2007

There's just not much here to recommend at all.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2007

One highly unlikely circumstance after another become laughable, preventing you from being moved by the family tragedies depicted. They beg for tears, but a script this chock-full of holes is unlikely to elicit the desired effect.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Everyone involved will move on to bigger and better things and leave this series of unfortunate events behind on the tracks, waiting for a midnight train to put it out of its considerable misery.

| Nov 9, 2007

I think somehow the filmmakers lost the way, lost sight of the people inside the plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

The younger Eastwood tells her story with sledgehammer blows.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 8, 2007

Either an unsuccessfully manipulative, sappy melodrama or the most deranged concept for a family sitcom anyone has ever developed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 8, 2007

All the astute acting in the world can't bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 8, 2007

It's not all bad.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2007

In the right hands, this might be the stuff of compelling cinema. Instead, Rails and Ties sinks into melodrama.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 1, 2007

While it has the appearance of a made-for-온라인카지노추천 weepie, it's well-acted, technically proficient, a solid story with genuine, credible emotions.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 29, 2007