Saw this movie at a friend's house. Doesn't hold up as it used to, but is still fun to watch.
June 19, 2008 |  | Clap if you like Brad and Rick. |  |
Sandy Tung's "Across the Tracks" is exactly what I expected: a standard-issue teen angst movie, neither great nor terrible, and worth seeing strictly for its two stars. The story concerns two brothers from a poor background, both high-school track runners. Joe (Brad Pitt) is an overachieving straight arrow starting to crack from the strain, and Billy (Rick Schroder) is a juvenile delinquent trying desperately to go straight. There is no situation in the movie that you don't see coming from about 200 miles away, and writer-director Tung has a bad habit of changing the characters' basic personality traits to fit the action. (Also, the sound track, consisting mostly of second-rate heavy metal, is beyond annoying.) But the movie rests squarely on the shoulders of Pitt and Schroder, and fortunately they can bear the weight. They're both extremely easy to look at, they're convincingly athletic in their running scenes, they're believable as brothers and they both give nice, clean acting jobs, as good as the material allows. "Across the Tracks" isn't exactly a must-see, but it's a painless and interesting look at Pitt just before "Thelma and Louise" made him a household name, and also at Schroder right after "Lonesome Dove."
April 7, 2008 | | Low budget and poorly produced but still a great film | |
The film starts off feeling like a bad Lifetime movie. It has a sort of after school special feel to it. It's low budget, not very skillful in its direction, and Pitt is still developing his craft. He's not yet at his best. Despite all this, the further you get into the film the more involving it becomes. I loved this film.
There is a lot of depth to the relationship between the two brothers and besides Without Limits this is the best track film that I have ever seen.
January 13, 2008I enjoyed the movie. It was fun to watch Rick Schroeder and brad Pitt in roles as teenagers and the movie had a good story line.
August 3, 2007Poorly produced, poorly written. Predictable, and disjointed. Even two popular actors as Brad Pitt and Rick Schroeder don't help this one fly.
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