IMDB Film Details

Train Dreams is haunting and poetic, capturing America when the old ways transitioned to the new. Bentley’s story is difficult to place on a historical timeline, leaving only visual hints, such as the introduction of chainsaws to logging or an astronaut orbiting Earth.

Logger Robert Grainier's melancholy journey allows us to witness the lives of those on the Northwest Frontier, from homesteaders to foreign workers to blue-collar philosophers to a feminist intellectual. Robert experiences trauma from white supremacist violence and tragedy from an unforgiving land. The film's message? Rugged individualism was a boondoggle that has always ensnared us.

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