Alison Eastwood on "Rails and Ties"

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Alison Eastwood makes her directing debut with “Rails and Ties," a film starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden as a couple at a crossroads. When a woman commits suicide by parking her car in the path of an oncoming train, the train's engineer (Bacon) and his wife (Harden) are left to deal with the consequences, including a young son’s anger about his mother’s death.

"Rails and Ties" opens today nationwide. Watch the trailer and learn about theaters and show times here.

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