Night Train
Synopsis
Poole finds what he believes is a sanctuary in a suburban house belonging to a domineering old woman, Mrs Mooney, and her emotionally repressed daughter Alice. Here, Poole indulges in a private passion - his huge model train system and he slowly draws Alice into his strange fantasy world.
Their developing love affair is deepened by a mutual need to escape the past. But as the criminal noose is tightened around Poole, he is forced to take flight - with Alice on the real Orient Express. It becomes a journey from romance to nightmare to Venice at carnival time where Poole and Alice are forced to make painful choices between illusion and reality.
Can the con man really rid himself of the habits of the past, even for the love of his life?
Details
- Year
- 1999
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 92 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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John Lynch 1st Feature
- Producer
- Matthew Payne, Mark Vennis
- Director of Photography
- Seamus Deasy
- Principal cast
- John Hurt, Brenda Blethyn
- Executive Screen Writer
- Aodhan Madden
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Subotica Films Ltd 22 Aungier Street Dublin 2 Ireland Tel: 00 35 31 662 2226 Fax: 00 35 31 662 2227
Sales Company
J&M Entertainment 2 Dorset Square London NW1 6PX Tel: 020 7723 6544 Fax: 020 7724 7541 Email: (name)@jment.com
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