Off the Rails

Off the Rails (2016)

How one man's love of transport led to a lifetime of incarceration.

The remarkable true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for the criminal impersonation of NYC subway drivers, conductors, token booth clerks, and track repairmen.

Date of release
2016-11-04
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Adam Irving

Casting

Interesting facts

Off the Rails: The Darius McCollum Story is a 2016 American documentary film about Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger's syndrome who was jailed 32 times for impersonating New York City bus drivers and subway conductors and driving their routes. The film was written, directed and produced by Adam Irving. It was nominated for a 2016 Critics' Choice Documentary Award for Best First Documentary Feature.

Background and production

Director Adam Irving initially read about McCollum's transit-related escapades by happenstance on Wikipedia and thought it would make a good subject for a documentary. After doing more research on McCollum, Irving flew to New York to meet with Jude Domski, who wrote and produced a 2003 play about McCollum called Boy Steals Train. Domski helped Irving get in touch with McCollum, who was in jail at Rikers Island in New York.

The film was shot in both New York and Toronto. Some reenactments were filmed in Toronto's Lower Bay station, a closed subway station that is still functional for moving out-of-service trains, and which has been used as a movie set in several films.

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