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TMDB Rating 5.5

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Status: Released

Average Rating: 6

Release Date: Jan 1, 1997

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Run Time: 1h 12m

Original Language: English

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Synopsis

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.


Main Cast

Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas

Narrator

Age : 72 | Popularity : 14%


Crew

Department Role Name
Camera Director of Photography
Sam Henriques
Sam Henriques
Directing Director
Lexy Lovell
Lexy Lovell
Michael Uys
Michael Uys
Editing Editor
Howard Sharp
Howard Sharp
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