Acquired by Netflix out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Train Dreams is the film adaptation of the beloved Denis Johnson novella of the same name that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Produced by Black Bear & Kamala Films, the film is the latest collaboration for writer/director Clint Bentley ( Jockey ) and co-writer Greg Kwedar, who received a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at last year’s Oscars for their work on the A24 prison drama Sing Sing .

Set in the Idaho panhandle during the turn of the 20th century, the story follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger & railroad worker by trade, who lives a quiet life of isolation, traveling to large timber jobs all over the Pacific Northwest.

In his early 30s, he meets and marries Gladys (Rogue One’s Felic

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