The railway man
(2014, original release: 2013)

Fiction

Blu-ray

Call Numbers:
BLU-RAY/DRAMA/RAILWAY

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies BLU-RAY/DRAMA/RAILWAY Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Beverly Hills, CA] : Anchor Bay Films, [2014]
EDITION
[Widescreen version]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
0013132617619 BD61761, 9786315505140, 013132617619
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from sell sheet

Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate. Based on a true story

Originally released as a motion picture in 2013

Based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax

Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid, Hiroyuki Sanada

MPAA rating: R; for disturbing prisoner of war violence

Blu-ray, widescreen; Dolby Digital; requires Blu-ray player

English dialogue; English or Spanish subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

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