- published: 24 Oct 2013
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Track 29 is a 1988 film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films with Rick McCallum. The film was nominated for and won a few awards at regional film festivals. The writer, Dennis Potter, adapted his earlier television play, Schmoedipus (1974), changing the setting from London to the United States. It was filmed in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
The wife of a small town doctor tires of his spending too much time playing with his model trains, and starts thinking about the son she gave up for adoption years before. While dining at a cafe, she meets a British hitchhiker, who believes he is her son. Years earlier, she was raped and gave up her son for adoption. The son may be a figment of her imagination. They start to get to know each other and the son starts to hate the husband. The wife begins to fear for her husband's safety.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times thought the film missed the mark:
However, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times rated it 3 stars out of his 4 star rating system and found the film well done but painful:
Well given the tall grass you´re livin´ in
It´s not ideal to keep fire in your life.
And the Delta Winds keep pickin´ on me
As I´m makin´ it down the line.
Sorry to burn so unexpectedly
But it ain´t goin´ out with the rain in your eyes.
Mississippi burnin´ in the middle of
The raging wind tonight
Black gold and coal´s open up the throttle
To get me the hell away
From that Mason-Dixon line.
Sit on the floor
And lock the door-
Dancin´ with a bottle.
Takin´ it home where the buffalo roam on track 29...
Track 29.
Given the tone of your delivery
And the habit of seeing me kinda blow right by,
And the Delta Winds keep trickin´ me
That I hear your words arrive.
She said she found the arms of another man.
Well to tell you the truth man
She should´ve lied.
Mississippi lyin´ in the middle
Of a bed of nails tonight.
Black gold and coal´s open up the throttle
To get me the hell away
From that Mason-Dixon line.
Sit on the floor
And lock the door-
Dancin´ with a bottle.
Takin´ it home where the buffalo roam on track 29...