Release Date
November 7, 2025 (Limited)
Digital Date
November 21, 2025 (Netflix)
Director
Clint Bentley
Writer
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
Cast
Joel Edgerton, Scott Hinckley, Greg Kwedar, John Friedberg KEY CAST: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Will Patton
Studio
Running Time
102 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some violence and sexuality
What is Train Dreams about?
Based on Denis Johnson's beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.
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Early on in Train Dreams, our main character witnesses a Chinese man getting hauled onto a railroad trestle by his fellow workers and thrown into a ravine, for no reason other than, one can assume, being Chinese. This one act of violence, seemingly so random, ripples through the rest of this movie, a sweeping yet intimately personal drama that is less about the man than his narrow vision of the world around him.
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