Track 29

1988
R
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.6K

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Gary Oldman and Theresa Russell in Track 29 (1988)

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Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.Linda is still tormented by giving up a baby for adoption at 15. She wants a baby, but her husband has enough in his model trains, mistress and being a doctor.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Track 29

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Trivia
After screening the dailies of Gary Oldman screaming at the beginning of the film, projectionist Herbert Gambill suggested to the producer they use the John Lennon song "Mother" to accompany the scene, as both the scene and the song suggested primal scream therapy. The editors added it as temporary music and it wound up in the released film.

Goofs
After being confronted by Martin (Gary Oldman) during her attempted (pseudo)-suicide by drowning herself in the pool, Linda Henry (Theresa Russell) exits the pool for the very first and only-ever time and there is plainly seen a trail of dripping water leading from where she is exiting the pool over to where she is retrieving her towel, clearly left over from a previous take of the same sequence just moments before.

Quotes
Henry Henry: If there's one thing I've learned in this world, it's that women and trains don't mix!

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Alien Nation/Elvira: Mistress of the Dark/Imagine: John Lennon/Salaam Bombay/Track 29 (1988)

Soundtracks
M.O.T.H.E.R.
By Theodore Morse and Fiske O'Hara
© 1915 Leo Feist Inc.
Used by Permission of Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew Ltd.
Lyrics by Howard Johnson (uncredited)
Performed by Gary Oldman (uncredited)

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4/10

Is she his mother, his lover, and do we even care

A woman suffers mental trauma twenty years after being raped - at least that's the most obtainable synopsis for this bizarre but entirely unengaging drama. Theresa Russell plays the bored housewife, trapped in a passionless marriage with doctor Christopher Lloyd. When a man claiming to be her son - stolen from her arms at birth after the rape - appears out of nowhere, knowing an awful lot about her, it releases the trauma she has kept hidden for so long.

What should be intriguing is anything but. It is impossible to care for Russell because she's embarrassingly bad. Lloyd has nothing to do (never mind nothing funny). The young Oldman is shown up in this most difficult of roles. That's probably thanks to the director more than himself. Roeg's output is horribly inconsistent. You would have hoped that working from a script by the late, brilliant Dennis Potter would have inspired him to make a masterpiece. He can't even keep the film on the ground.

But then again, the Americans never got a grasp on Potter's humour. And Roeg has hardly been worth watching since he went to the States.