The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)

I had never heard of the movie. It was on Showtime when I was dozing on my recliner.Excellent Acting by Brendan Fehr, Chad Lindberg, Shirley Knight and (wasn't she a genius on Malcolm???) Tania Raymonde.It may have been written for those of us that watched our loved ones hang on while God is calling them home.I'm not a touchy feely person but it made me think of my my mom who was a strong loving Canuck. She was proud, always had some mud potion or garlic potion that cured everything. She hung on to life because she knew we needed her love. So this movie had nothing to do with a mother in Hospice Care. It did bring that all back to me, and strangely comforted me. I think the writers and actors did their job.Thanks

Beautiful, subtle, complex and ultimately gratifying. This film is a masterpiece of misdirection, (actually several misdirections), understatements, and events and scenes which, when introduced, cause the viewer to re-orient and re-interpret what preceded. However, the "new" understanding has to be scrapped as yet another scene layers another interpretation. The question at the end remains: agonal* dream, supernatural events, real life? Which is which, or are the interpretations mutually exclusive? Some class this film as "horror," but, if it's horror, it's an entirely different brand - no chain-saws, no slashing, only a few brief scenes of what appears to be an animated dead body- even these can be interpreted at the time of viewing, as nightmares being experienced by the protagonist. This is my kind of movie. *agonal - pertaining to death or extreme suffering.

I am a big fan of A.D. Calvo's approach to the thriller/horror genre precisely because it is craftily understated, subtle, eerie, goose-bumpy, and truly haunting. In a genre where movies are commonly padded with obvious digital special effects, cliché chase scenes, gratuitous gore, and incessant explosions, Other Side of the Tracks sets itself apart by being truly about the story first, before the techniques. It is a carefully conceived and beautifully made psychological thriller whose ending forces one to think back through each scene to try to piece together its full meaning. It stays with the you for a while, and makes you think about your own perceptions, memories, delusions, fantasies, etc. Gorgeously filmed in rural Connecticut, featuring a particularly powerful performance by Chad Lindberg, and with a beautiful and evocative score by composer Joe Carrano, Other Side of the Tracks is a remarkable debut film from a very talented director, and I'd like to see where he goes next.

This is really awful ... the high rating is a JOKE!!! It would be a great camp fire story to be told to 10 year old's in five minutes. To drag it out for a full length movie was painful.If makes little sense as it is going ... and much less sense when it is finally over and you think about it (and I recommend you do not think about it ... or watch it) They say a good Hollywood movie can be written on a matchbook ... and this one should have stayed on the matchbook. Extremely slow and boring (nearly fell asleep twice), and the ending was no shock. In fact, it was a yawn!The best thing was the lesbian kiss, and one of the lesbian's butt, but there is no nudity ... so again, great for 10 year old's, and adults should avoid this like the plague.