Eastwood is conductor on 'Rails'

October 26, 2006 Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden are in negotiations to star in "Rails and Ties," a Warner Independent Pictures drama that will mark the feature directorial debut of Alison Eastwood. The script by Micky Levy tells of the physical, emotional and psychological collision of two families that is set in motion when a suicidal mother parks her car, with her 9-year old son inside, on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train. Bacon, who also starred in "Mystic River," next appears in the ensemble crime drama "The Air I Breathe."

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