Train Ride
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Train Ride is an award-winning, critically acclaimed feature thriller film written and directed by Rel Dowdell, which was released in 2005 by Sony/Ruffnation Films. It revolves around the consequences of an incident of date rape on a college campus in Philadelphia, and stars Wood Harris, MC Lyte, Russell Hornsby, Thomas Braxton Jr., Guru, Joe Clair, KaDee Strickland, and Emmy-award winning actress Esther Rolle. The film was shot in 1998, but financing problems meant that the post-production process took several years to complete. However, positive reviews from screenings of the film had been surfacing on the Internet Movie Database from as early as 2000.[1] Train Ride was Esther Rolle's last project before her death in November 1998, and the film is dedicated to her. Train Ride was shot on the campus of Cheyney University, which is the oldest African American college in the United States.
The film recently got high praise by noted film historian/critic Irv Slifkin in his best-selling book Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a City's Movies,' which was published by Middle Atlantic Press in 2006. The film also was in the top ten best-selling African- American films on amazon.com in 2006.
[edit] References
- Secours, Molly. Take a searing look at the realities of date rape. The Tennessean. April 5, 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2005.
- Colbert, Ray. Spotlight Rel Dowdell. Video2Edit. 2004. Retrieved June 13, 2005.
