Track 29

In Track 29, Nicolas Roeg delivers his provocative all-encompassing take on American family life and arrested development. In Wilmington—a pastel-coloured town in North Carolina—Linda (Theresa Russell), the bored wife of a doctor, drifts through her days. She's a Southern babydoll with hair clips and braces, utterly stifled—at least until this postmodern spin on the Oedipus myth takes a surreal turn: her long-lost son (Gary Oldman) shows up to seduce his mother and murder his father, who's obsessed with model trains. Roeg worked from an original script by British writer Dennis Potter—a match made in heaven. Potter, known for The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven, was himself a master of elliptical, non-linear storytelling and of blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Track 29 is a psychological drama that flirts with kitsch and deliberately raises more questions than it answers. What is certain, though, are the powerhouse performances by Theresa Russell and a young Gary Oldman.