The railway man

Cottrell Boyce, Frank, (screenwriter.). Firth, Colin, 1960- (actor.). Kidman, Nicole, 1967- (actor.). Patterson, Andy, (screenwriter.). Teplitzky, Jonathan, (film director.). Lomax, Eric Motion picture adaptation of (work): Railway man. (Added Author). Alliance Films, (provider.). Criterion-on-Demand (Firm), (film distributor.). Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid, Hiroyuki Sanada. (Cast).

Summary: 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.

Record details

Physical Description: remote
1 streaming video file (116 min.) : digital, sound, color
Publisher: Montreal : Alliance Films, [2014]
Distributor: [Vaughan, Ontario] : Criterion Pictures, [date of distribution not identified]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the autobiography of Eric Lomax. Originally distributed as a motion picture by Alliance Films, 2014.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to subscribers.
Participant or Performer Note:	Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Sam Reid, Hiroyuki Sanada.
Target Audience Note:	CHV rating: 14A. MPAA rating: R; for disturbing prisoner of war violence.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	French language version also available.
System Details Note:	Content available as a streaming video.
Source of Description Note:	Title from distributor's web site (viewed April 25, 2015).