Sam Elliott’s calmly affecting performance is overwhelmed by a doggedly conventional screenplay.
The Girl on the Train arrives on Blu-ray in a serviceable, if unremarkable, packaging from Universal.
Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train is a grimly deadpan lecture about messy truths and false perceptions.
The series remains compelling in its devotion to exposing its characters’ public hang-ups and private strengths.
It’s a yuppie coming-of-age narrative superimposed on a story about the people who end up in prison and the tools they develop to survive there.
The film’s cozy depiction of the rustic South lacks the visual panache that might have elevated the tale above the mundane.
Director Dewey Nicks refuses to let Slackers be seen as just another teen movie.