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      Track 29

      R Released Jul 12, 1988 1 hr. 26 min. Drama Mystery & Thriller List
      63% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 44% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score 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. Read More Read Less

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      Steve D Unpleasant and never even darkly funny. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/02/23 Full Review N L annoying british guy, stupid story Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Waste of time, silly acting and obtuse plot. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Rated: 2/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Molly Haskell Vogue Track 29 wants to jolt and frustrate, amuse and tantalize, and it succeeds. Feb 27, 2020 Full Review 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 Full Review Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Rated: 1/5 Aug 25, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jun 30, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      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
      Executive Producer
      George Harrison, Denis O'Brien
      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
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Stereo