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“Train Dreams” honors the men and women who built the country in obscurity; the loggers and homesteaders whose labor laid the steel and timber beneath America’s rise and whose names, as William H. Macy put it, “never made the history books, but created this country.”

“I think this is a true rendition of the West,” the 75-year-old Emmy Award-winner told The Christian Post. “America came from stalwart, stoical, hardworking men and women who, under really difficult circumstances, created this country. That’s who we are, not the gun-toting fighting guy. This film gets that right.”

Set in the early decades of the 20th century, during a period of breakneck industrial expansion, the film follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger and railroad laborer in Idaho’s Kootenai Va

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