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Train Dreams
Directed by
Clint Bentley
PG-13
2025
1h 42m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.5
93%
91%
7.3
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A logger leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 1900s.
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Cast of Train Dreams
Joel Edgerton
Robert Grainier / Executive Producer
Felicity Jones
Gladys Grainier
Nathaniel Arcand
Ignatius Jack
Clifton Collins Jr.
Boomer
John Diehl
Billy
Paul Schneider
Apostle Frank
Kerry Condon
Claire Thompson
William H. Macy
Arn Peeples
Will Patton
Narrator (voice)
Alfred Hsing
Fu Sheng
David Paul Olsen
Toomis
John Patrick Lowrie
Mr. Sears
Chuck Tucker
Silent Man
Rob Price
Curious Logger
Brandon Lindsay
Elijah Brown
Eric Ray Anderson
Boss
Beau Charles
Young Logger
Rick Rivera
Foreman. New Cut
Taylor McKinley
Logger. New Cut
Ashton Singer
Avery Pinkham
Train Dreams Ratings & Reviews
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
Bentley renders Idaho and this way of life around the turn of the 20th century in such a mystical and mysterious way, it almost seems like science fiction.
Slate
Rebecca Onion
Beautiful, moving, and thoughtful.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Joel Edgerton brings a quiet soulfulness to "Train Dreams" that perfectly complements director Clint Bentley's meditative portrait of an unassuming logger making his way through early 20th century America, and beyond.
Newsday
Robert Levin
The story of a country that's forever marching toward the future, rebuilding and redefining itself, even as the voices of its past cry out to be remembered.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Train Dreams is stunning to look at, the kind of film where each blade of grass, each jagged tree branch, each mini ripple of a rushing river, seems to sing out as an individual.
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Leonard Maltin
If there is a lovelier, more heartfelt film than Train Dreams now playing in theaters I have yet to see it
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson's story... The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson's elegiac theme about a bygone America.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
The grand sweep of our lives, "Train Dreams" suggests, is the sort of thing we can only begin to understand when we're reaching life's end, and even then we may only grasp it dimly.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Train Dreams might veer a little too close to sentimental at times, but perhaps that's an intentional respite from the aching loss at its core.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It's a film that all but welcomes and nurtures, telling us that, in the end, we all matter.
Chicago Reader
Joe Engleman
It's disappointing.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
A beautiful tone poem of a movie. I hesitate to say that only because it implies something woozy and precious. "Train Dreams" is anything but.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
So many films make you feel, in hindsight, that no one else could have played those characters except the people who were cast. Edgerton gives you that sensation within the first 30 seconds of him being onscreen here.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Christy Lemire
If you can see it in a theater you should, because it is so extraordinarily beautiful.
San Francisco Chronicle
Michael Phillips
Visually, "Train Dreams" has a strong Terrence Malick drunk-on-lost-Eden streak, striving for poetry and myth along with the prose. Yet it coheres.
The Travers Take
Peter Travers
Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones bring flesh-and-blood immediacy to this classic in the making.about the beauty and terror of pioneering railroad days. A tough sell? Maybe. But not when a movie dares to reach for the stars like this one.
Boston Globe
Odie Henderson
This is a gorgeous movie to look at, to listen to, and to experience on an emotional level. The acting is top notch, especially Macy and Edgerton.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
That Edgerton seems so credible as a man of the early 20th century also makes him believable as someone who has seen his moment pass him by. Times change, "Train Dreams" seems to consider, but the great wonders of life remain eternal.
Washington Post
Travis M. Andrews
This meditation on life is a 102-minute respite from a world that never gives us a chance to slow down and realize how beautiful it truly is.
The Reveal
Keith Phipps
Bentley transforms Johnson's story into a Terrence Malick-inspired reverie of images and overlapping emotions, accompanied by large chunks of Johnson's prose via Will Patton's narration.
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