IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by Clint Bentley. Stars Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., and Felicity Jones.
Train Dreams is a slow western drama starring Joel Edgerton as a lumberjack working on the railroad at the turn of the century, as industrial revolution is starting to kick in and things are starting to become mechanized. We follow him over the course of his life and how his world changes and how he copes with life and loss. It's a very slow meditative film. I understand why got nominated for the awards it did and why so many people loved it, although it is not my typical style of film. I'm such a city girl that I really struggle to connect with films about loners off living in the woods by themselves, but Edgerton does a lot to bring some depth to this character beyond just making him vaguely unreadable and stoic. He brings humor and kindness and care, especially in the way that he talks to the William H. Macy's character. It's a very thoughtful movie, one that definitely you're just supposed to sit in and live in that world for a while. I don't think that it's one that I am connecting to in such a way that I want to go back and re-watch it anytime soon but I appreciate it for what it is and for what it is about.
🎥 Train Dreams (2025)
📊 Ranked #809/4216 on my Flickchart
🎯 Flickscore™: 81
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