Panic attacks prompt flashbacks to the 1940s, when as a young officer, Lomax (Jeremy Irvine, fittingly cast as the young Firth) is one of dozens of Allied soldiers captured in Singapore. This middle-aged romance quickly turns grim and into a war drama, because Lomax remains traumatized by his experiences as Japan's prisoner of war nearly forty years ago. After he shaves his mustache, they get married. Lomax, who describes himself as a "railway enthusiast, not a train spotter", and Patti, who has been a nurse for twenty years, quickly fall for each other. The film opens in a UK Veterans Club in 1980, where Lomax (Firth) is telling his fellow World War II veterans of a recent train ride on which he met a woman named Patti (Kidman). Railway Man adapts the autobiography of Eric Lomax. The film performed better in the leads' native countries, grossing almost $15 million combined in the UK and Australia, regions where it opened shortly after last Christmas. The film, produced for $18 million, grossed $4.4 M in North America, a paltry sum but not terrible considering its theater count capped at 600. That is the situation that The Railway Man, a British-Australian drama starring two of America's most respected imports, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, found itself in earlier this year.
#MOVIE THE RAILWAY MAN MOVIE#
When a movie from The Weinstein Company that is based on a true story and stars two fairly recent Academy Award winners opens in theaters in April, you know the project isn't meeting its full prestige potential.
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