The couple couldn’t be happier, but Lomax is unable to shake the terrible memories and nightmares of his wartime experiences, which are shown in flashback with Jeremy Irvine ( War Horse) playing him as a younger man. This is a re-post of my The Railway Man review from the 2013 Toronto.
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When the film opens in 1980 England, the now middle-aged Lomax (Firth) has long been free and he’s enjoying life as a “railway enthusiast,” a hobby that results in a chance meeting with Canadian nurse Patti Wallace (Kidman), soon to become Mrs. Colin Firth stars as a former army officer who sets out on a mission of revenge to confront the man who tormented him while he was prisoner at a Japanese labor. The Railway Man Photos View All Photos (27) Movie Info Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a former British army officer and POW, discovers that the Japanese interpreter who tortured him is still alive. Adam's The Railway Man review, starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Jeremy Irvine. One Japanese officer exhibited particular zeal in tormenting him. He was also tortured, beaten and waterboarded, because his Japanese captors suspected him of spying. Lomax was a British Army officer in the Far East who in 1942 was captured by the Japanese along with other Allied fighters and forced to work on the infamous “Death Railway” between Thailand and Burma (now Myanmar). Filmed during 2012, The Railway Man premiered at.
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Working the autobiography of PoW Eric Lomax (Cottrell Boyce and Andy Paterson penned the screenplay), he’s managed to strip out most of the drama, resulting in a film of painful silences, doleful gazes and thousand-yard stares. in Fife and Perthshire Scotland in new Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman film of the true story by Eric Lomax. Or maybe it’s just director Jonathan Teplitzky. This World War II drama starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman goes a long way to make a muted statement, suggesting that filmmakers may finally be running out of screen-worthy stories to tell from the conflict.
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The quality of mercy isn’t just strained in The Railway Man, it’s measured out by the teaspoonful. Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife forced to revisit the trauma of his WWII past in Jonathan Teplitzky's drama based on the true story of Eric. At the Varsity, Queensway and Empress Walk Cineplex theatres. Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgard, Hiroyuki Sanada and Jeremy Irvine.