Rails & Ties

(USA, 2007, 100 minutes)

A childless couple in crisis is reconciled when an orphaned boy finds his way into their lives. Run-of-the-mill melodrama with better credits than its hackneyed script merits.

A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation/production. Starring Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Marin Hinkle, Eugene Byrd, Laura Cerón, Margo Martindale; and Miles Heizer as Davey. Directed by Alison Eastwood; produced by Robert Lorenz, Peer Oppenheimer, Barrett Stuart; written by Micky Levy; music by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens; director of photography (Technicolor, Panavision), Tom Stern; production designer, James J. Murakami; costume designer, Deborah Hopper; film editor, Gary D. Roach.