The Man on the Train

The Man on the Train (2011)

A mysterious criminal rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor, his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they've made in their lives, secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own.

Date of release
2011-10-28
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Mary McGuckian

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Ontario

Man on the Train is a 2011 Canadian-Irish crime-drama film directed by Mary McGuckian, starring Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr. It is an English-language remake of the 2002 French film of the same name.

Production

Filmed in April 2010, it was shot "under the radar" over a 17-day period in the towns of Orangeville and Dundas, Ontario. Because of Mullen's fame as a member of the rock band U2, there was no pre-publicity surrounding his participation in the project, with only Sutherland mentioned in local news coverage.

Upon the film's release, Mullen told the media that he proceeded with making his acting debut after his bandmate, Bono, was hospitalized with a back injury. "Had Bono not hurt his back, it is unlikely I would have made this film," he told the Daily Mirror newspaper in May 2011. "I hope I would have done something else, but you never know. We had a period off - it was only a couple of weeks, but it was enough to take the film on.

Mullen also told the film website Collider that "Overall, it was incredibly difficult. It didn’t come easy, necessarily, but when I looked back at it, I didn’t look as terrified as I actually was. From my day job, everything you do, you have an opportunity to look at and re-assess and change. With this, I could do everything except change it. It was there. It was on film.

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