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Linda Henry
Martin
Henry Henry
Arlanda
Nurse Stein
Dr. Bernard Fairmont
Critic Reviews for Track 29
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (3)
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January 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 -
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.
January 1, 2000 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
Track 29 wants to jolt and frustrate, amuse and tantalize, and it succeeds.
February 27, 2020 | Full Review… -
This is a wild and unnecessarily noisy film, with confusion and violence that becomes hysterical and outgrows its context.
September 5, 2018 | Full Review… -
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August 25, 2005 | Rating: 1/5 -
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June 30, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
Audience Reviews for Track 29
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Feb 12, 2010TRACK 29 (1988) Directed by Nicholas Roeg. Exec.Producer George Harrison. Written by Dennis Potter. This nightmarish adaptation of Potter's play, Schmoedipus, tells the seemingly simple story of a man in search of his mother who gave up her child (a result of rape as a teenager) some 20-odd years ago. She has been left permanently scarred, trapped in a child-like limbo, drinking away her pain & pining for the child she never got to hold or love. She feels safe but desperately unhappy, in her loveless marriage to a paternalistic physician, who has infantile obsessions of his own, & spends his time locked away playing with his train-set, telling her off, working, or being disciplined by his mistress (played with considerable aplomb by Sandra Bernhardt). Enter Gary Oldman, the prodigal son, who has "come all the way across the pond in search of my mama." And suddenly, small-town USA is no longer the place of home-baked cookies & white-picket fences, but a dark, hallucinatory nightmare of repressed sexual desire, violence, revenge & madness. Welcome to the mind of the late, great Dennis Potter. This is by far one of his best works, reminiscent in many ways of Brimstone & Treacle, only honed into a more mature, polished & refined tale. It is downright disturbing & leaves one with many more questions than answers, so often the trademark of Potter's hallucinatory works. You will never hear the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo" in the same way again *****5 out of 5 stars*****mirabella 1 Super Reviewer
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May 08, 2009"Choo, choo, CHOO!" Crazy! Incest, spanking, model trains. This film disturbs me. Is he her son? Is he her lover? Is she insane? Or is there an alternate dimension? God knows, but this is a crazy, surreal trip and I certainly didn't find it as bad as it's made out to be.Emily B Super Reviewer
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Jan 05, 2008what can i say this movie was pretty freaky and messed up, the whole story line was pretty wrong her imagining that the character played by gary oldman is her son but yet theres the sexual atmosphere in some scenes which i thought was wrong not the best movie ive ever seenLone W Super Reviewer
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May 15, 2007Actually a companion piece to Brimstone and Treacle.Anthony V Super Reviewer
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