Product Details

• Actors: Theresa Russell, Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp, Sandra Bernhard
• Directors: Nicolas Roeg
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Artemis Entertainmen
• VHS Release Date: September 14, 1994
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303247830
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,817 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The train's off track, but Oldman's worth the ride..., June 30, 2000

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Ripe Wicked Plum (Sarasota, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Track 29 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Most people who watch this go away mumbling "where was the plot" it was there, buried, but there. I love this film. Then again, I'm a huge Oldman fan. This was one of his earlier performances and you can see the actor that was to come. His portrayal of Martin, an alcoholic's fantasy version of her long-lost son, is magnificent. He shifts from man to boy, lover to child brilliantly. I wish I could praise his co-stars as highly. Theresa Russell's stiff performance as the bored alcoholic housewife left me cold and, for my money, Christopher Lloyd and Sandra Bernhard could have been left out completely. The only reason to watch the film is Gary Oldman, but his performance makes it worth watching again and again...just keep the ffwd button close.

"MOMMY!"

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I AM that mother!, April 30, 2000

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"omniscientfool" (Beijing, China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Track 29 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

...says the truck driver to Oldman, in one of the most oddlyquotable lines, in a film built upon scene after scene offrustratingly strange action. Described as a black comedy, I don't remember laughing except in awe of its disregard for coherence . . . The climax scene is indescribable, and I'm not sure if it is weirder in or out of context. It is fitting that the title is a random snippit, explaining nothing and then being less than trivial even after seeing it. If you have an innate desire to see each starring male character's hindquarters, buy this film and enjoy it from the safety of your padded cell.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good film - poor quality DVD., May 14, 2011

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M. J. Arcangelini (Santa Rosa, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Track 29 (DVD)

This meeting of writer Dennis Potter and filmmaker Nicolas Roeg is, as others have noted, nearly indescribable, surreal, outrageous, sometimes confusing but never boring. I don't think it gives anything away to say that Gary Oldman's character is a hallucination conjured by Theresa Russell's character (this is made clear in a bar scene fairly early in the film), which for me accounts for much of his bizarre and over-the-top acting - he's not supposed to be a real character so why should he act like one? She has imagined him and everything he does so he can do whatever she wants - he is an extension of her. There are some ways in which this film reminds me of Robert Altman's excellent and overlooked "Images" in that both films chart the emotional disintegration of the heroine and you are never sure in either film whether what you're seeing is real or not. If you enjoy Roeg films like "Bad Timing" and "Insignificance" you may like "Track 29" as well. If nothing else the film would be worth watching just for the glee on Sandra Bernhard's face as she spanks Christopher Lloyd's bare bottom with her rubber-gloved hands - she makes every film she's in something special. Now we get to my real reason for writing this review, to caution people about this DVD. This is my first experience with a made-to-order DVD and I'm not impressed. It is merely a copy of a videotape, you can see the old tracking static in the bottom portion of the screen from time to time. To say there are no special features is putting it lightly, there isn't even scene selection, which has become so ubiquitous that we don't notice it unless it is gone. Picture quality is bad as is sound, but it is watch-able and it is the only way I have found to get this wonderful and unusual film on DVD, other than a $25 Danish version. So the DVD gets one star while the movie itself gets four stars; good, but not great Roeg.