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The Railway Man

Year:

2014

Duration:

116 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | War

IMDB rate:

7.1

Director:

Jonathan Teplitzky

Awards:

5 wins & 18 nominations

Details

Country: Australia

Release Date: 2014-05-23

Filming Locations: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Earnings

Budget: $18,000,000

Opening Weekend: $61,845 (USA) (13 April 2014)

Gross: $4,435,083 (USA) (13 July 2014)

Cast

Actor

Character

Ben Aldridge

Jeremy Irvine

Young Eric

Colin Firth

Eric

Stellan Skarsgård

Finlay

Michael MacKenzie

Sutton

Nicole Kidman

Patti

Jeffrey Daunton

Burton

Tanroh Ishida

Young Takeshi Nagase

Tom Stokes

Withins

Bryan Probets

Major York

Tom Hobbs

Thorlby

Sam Reid

Young Finlay

Akos Armont

Jackson

Kitamoto Takato

Japanese Officer

Keith Fleming

Removal Man

Yutaka Izumihara

Japanese NCO

Louis Toshio Okada

Hank the Yank

Micheal Doonan

Doctor Rogers

Shoota Tanahshi

Japanese Mechanic

Peter Tuinstra

Pump Operator

Shogo Tanikawa

Japanese Engineer

Ben Warren

Cook

Yasuhiko Miyauchi

Japanese Sergeant

Keiichi Enomoto

Sakamoto

Masa Yamaguchi

Kempei Officer

Hiroyuki Sanada

Takeshi Nagase

Ewen Leslie

Captain Thompson

Shinji Ikefuji

Thug Sergeant

Jack McTaggart

Australian Soldier

Sarah McVicar

Nurse

Therese Bradley

Mother

David Breen

British POW (uncredited)

Byron J. Brochmann

British Trooper POW (uncredited)

Ray Crofter

War Veteran #4 (uncredited)

Marta Dusseldorp

Memsahib (uncredited)

David Firestar

Tourist (uncredited)

Anthony Miller

British Liasion Major Miller (uncredited)

Glenna Morrison

Mrs.Margery Lomax (uncredited)

Anteo Quintavalle

POW '2' (uncredited)

Ben Rossberg

POW / Medic (uncredited)

Charlie Ruedpokanon

Japanese Guard (uncredited)

Ron Smoorenburg

Sergeant (uncredited)

Taka Uematsu

Warrant officer (uncredited)

Koichi Waki

Slap Thorlby Japanese Sergeant (uncredited)

Ken Watanabe

Japanese Guard (uncredited)

Matthew Wollaston

Eric's carriage (uncredited)

Takashi Yamaguchi

Japanese Guard (uncredited)

Toshi Yoshino

Japanese Guard (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Jeremy Irvine was cast as the younger version of Colin Firth's character, after Firth himself suggested him for the role.

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Rachel Weisz was originally cast as Patti Lomax, but was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, with re-shoots planned for The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). Nicole Kidman replaced her after being asked to take the part by Colin Firth himself.

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The real-life Patti Lomax attended the film's world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2013. She received a standing ovation upon the screening of the film. She also attended 20. Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia and received a standing ovation.

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Goofs

When Eric hugs Patti in the final scene, his watch shows the time as about half past six despite it obviously being the middle of the day.

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Many of the train liveries shown in the UK were either long out of use by 1980 or in the case of the maroon West Coast Railway livery did not exist yet.

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The Royal Border Bridge at Berwick-on-Tweed is shown with overhead wires, which were not built until 1989.

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Quotes

Eric: Sometime the hating has to stop.

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Nagase: You are a soldier, Lomax. You never surrendered.

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Eric: Don't move.

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