Alison Eastwood makes a tentative directorial debut with a made-for-TV-quality script by tin-eared Mickey Levy. 
Kevin Bacon plays a train engineer troubled by his wife’s (Marcia Gay Harden) battle with breast cancer.
Bacon’s character gets a fresh plate of crisis when his train hits the car of a depressed mother parked on the tracks with her 10-year-old son in the passenger seat.
The boy escapes and goes searching for the train driver that killed his mother.
Harden and Bacon are dependably strong as a middle-aged couple facing death, yet the picture has a surprisingly shallow dramatic arc that falls into place all too predictably.
Alison Eastwood has a good eye for composition but misses out completely on bringing some much-needed rhythmic variety and humor to the maudlin source material.
Rated PG-13. 96 mins.
