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Man on the Train (2011)

Man on the Train poster
Original title
The Man on the Train
Directed by
Mary McGuckian
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A retired poetry professor meets a stranger on a train who is a bank robber. The two men form an unlikely friendship as they spend time together in a small town.

slow-burntentativereflectiveunderstatedmelancholicquietmethodicalintrospective

What happens

Man on the Train is a 2011 Canadian-Irish crime-drama film directed by Mary McGuckian, starring Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr. It is an English-language remake of the 2002 French film of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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