Track 29

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Track 29

R

Released Jul 12, 1988

1h 26m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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Years after a desperate teenage Linda (Theresa Russell) gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin (Gary Oldman), a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry (Christopher Lloyd). But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

The reason I didn't like Track 29 is that the film is unlikable -- perhaps deliberately so. But that doesn't make it a bad film, and it probably makes it a more interesting one.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Rated: 2/4

Jan 1, 2000

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Molly Haskell

Vogue

Track 29 wants to jolt and frustrate, amuse and tantalize, and it succeeds.

Feb 27, 2020

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Hilary Mantel

The Spectator

This is a wild and unnecessarily noisy film, with confusion and violence that becomes hysterical and outgrows its context.

Sep 5, 2018

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Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly

Rated: 1/5

Aug 25, 2005

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 3/5

Jun 30, 2005

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Steve D

Unpleasant and never even darkly funny.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/02/23

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N L

annoying british guy, stupid story

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Shioka O

I don't know what is the point of this film. Produced by HandMade film! Nicolas Roeg could do more.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/22/22

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Audience Member

Modern Southern Gothic as portrayed through the deliciously perverse vision of director Nicolas Roeg and screenwriter Dennis Potter, Track 29 tells the familiar tale of a mysterious stranger insinuating himself into the loveless marriage between a sexually frustrated younger woman, and an inattentive older man. But what separates it from the profoundly inferior soft-core indulgences of the era is not only Gary Oldman's menacing intensity, but the way Alex Thomson's intimately unsettling cinematography sucks viewers into Theresa Russell's warped psyche. Roeg and Potter deftly navigate a psychosexual minefield littered with incest, rape, passion, regret, desire, and madness, all while filling the journey with an air of absurdist humor. A unique and disturbing experience to be sure.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Audience Member

Waste of time, silly acting and obtuse plot.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

The unhappy life of the wife of a surgeon frustrated by her sexless life takes a strange twist when a man declaring himself as her son drops in her life. Full of psychological connotations and representative social imagery, this film is interesting for its dreamy or nightmarish over the top style, but all too random and unexplained to be rewarding in a significant way.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

Years after a desperate teenage Linda (Theresa Russell) gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin (Gary Oldman), a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry (Christopher Lloyd). But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Producer: Rick McCallum
Screenwriter: Dennis Potter
Production Co: Handmade Films
Rating: R
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 12, 1988, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 10, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.3K
Runtime: 1h 26m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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