Synopsis
After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
2017 Directed by Sydney Freeland
After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
Ashleigh Murray Rachel Crow Tim Blake Nelson David Sullivan Danielle Nicolet Sasheer Zamata Missi Pyle Sharon Lawrence Arturo Castro Myko Olivier Kinna McInroe Brooke Markham Monica Moore Smith Deborah Lee Douglas Gerry Garcia Mario DeAngelis Colby Strong Chad Wright Tua Kealoha Kami Christiansen Nick Moceri Ashlyn Brooke Anderson Lance Gray Griffin Childers Catherine Griffiths Auger Danna Louisa Wilson Don Hudson Gage Chandler Amanda Corbett
Deidra e Laney Assaltam um Trem, 디드라와 레이니, 열차를 털다, Deidra e Laney rapinano un treno, דידרה ולייני שודדות רכבת, Deidra und Laney - Diebstahl auf Schienen, Deidra y Laney asaltan un tren, Deidra & Laney rob a Train, Deidra ve Laney Tren Soyuyor, 蒂拉和蘭妮劫火車, Ντίντρα και Λέινι: Ληστεία στο Τρένο, 德蒂拉和兰尼抢劫了一辆火车, Дейдра и Лани грабят поезд
The crucial part of this film is the unintended damage of careless words and the internalization of those same words. Sometimes those words are honest words; sometimes those words are misrepresentations. Sometimes those words are just spiteful. The effects of these words ripple outward, traumas rolling like waves through people, from one to another. A careless word here is repeated as defense there, and when spoken with spite and authority (authority meaning vile credibility) festers and destroys and breaks a person. Bad decisions are built on such pain.
This film is intent upon showing how things connect: Deidra's mother works hard for her daughter, and it all comes to naught because working that hard makes her tired. She wrecks a…
Strikingly pedestrian in practically every aspect, but eminently charming as hell, with its heart in the right place and featuring some great ingenious performances to boot, specially the lead one by Ashleigh Murray (aka Josie from 'Riverdale'). I like how the delightfully hammy villain played by Tim Blake Nelson defining character trait is that he vapes, and that's all you need to know from him. Trying to make it up for totally uninspiredly shot films with post-production shenanigans however, it's not cool, and the coming of age genre does this far too often. Also, SNL's Sasheer Zamata does a damn good 'Edge of Seventeen' Woody Harrelson here.
wow it sure would be nice if cops were punished irl for using excessive force like the guy was in this movie 🙃
On paper, this looked set to be a Disney Channel movie of the week type affair or another Netflix dud in the same vein as Coin Heist.
Fortunately, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train is actually a lot of fun. The two leads are great and it's stylish, energetic and absolutely rattles along. Definitely worth a punt.
I was absolutely charmed to death by this film. It's definitely on the light side but you know what? I don't care. Not every movie where two sisters decide to rob a train to help their mum get out of prison and shenanigans ensues needs to be dark and gritty, okay? This movie has everything: sister love, a caper, bristol board art, trains, mom love, and Missi Pyle.
Part of the Queer Films Challenge!
6. A film by a trans filmmaker who is not a Wachowski sister
You know if Netflix released more original films like this one, I don't think we'd have as much of an issue from them having so many original films... and yet this is a diamond in the rough (and I don't even think the film is anywhere near a masterpiece).
While this film really isn't queer in anyway despite being filmed by the talented Sydney Freeland, a Navajo transwoman director, makes for a great film about identity. About being a daughter, a mother, a sister, a father, though moreso about the female characters. So that's something I liked.
I think what let…
The sweet, funny, FEMALE-DIRECTED black girl train robbery film I never knew I needed until now!!!!
Randomly rewatched this and it was still cute with some laughs but doesn't hold up as well as I remember in my head from almost 6 years ago. Still think there's something worth looking at as the concept of teen girl train robbers is really fun and there's some interesting commentary on breaking generational cycles. Laney's pageant subplot and mean girl villain feel overly juvenile in the movie compared to Deidra's slightly more grounded dilemma.
While there's some attempts at directorial style, I was very distracted at the general blandness in the color grading on screen, it was washing out the black characters badly, especially the dark skin Ashleigh Murray, and not in a way that felt intentional.
The best parts were during robberies but that may just me being biased lol.
Ashleigh is pretty decent in this role, it will make you wish she had been serviced better on Riverdale or Katy Keene
I really enjoyed this! I almost always like films with teen characters, and the plot of this was a unique take on high school and coming of age stories. I also really liked the cast! Very fun film.