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Track 29

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63% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 42% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
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 01/01/2000
3/4
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. Go to Full Review Molly Haskell Vogue 02/27/2020
Track 29 wants to jolt and frustrate, amuse and tantalize, and it succeeds. Go to Full Review Hilary Mantel The Spectator 09/05/2018
This is a wild and unnecessarily noisy film, with confusion and violence that becomes hysterical and outgrows its context. Go to Full Review Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly 08/25/2005
1/5
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/30/2005
3/5
Edward Havens FilmJerk.com 06/26/2003
4/5
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Steve D @RT35616104 03/02/2023 Unpleasant and never even darkly funny. See more N L @RT67044741 01/16/2023 annoying british guy, stupid story See more Shioka O @RT54204327 11/22/2022 I don't know what is the point of this film. Produced by HandMade film! Nicolas Roeg could do more. See more 10/30/2020 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. See more 02/03/2020 Waste of time, silly acting and obtuse plot. See more 01/06/2014 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. See more Read all reviews
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Nicolas Roeg

Director

Theresa Russell

Linda Henry

Gary Oldman

Martin

Christopher Lloyd

Henry Henry

Colleen Camp

Arlanda

Sandra Bernhard

Nurse Stein

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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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