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Across the Tracks is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 15 february 1991 with Rick Schroder
Across the Tracks (1991)
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Add to a movie listAcross the Tracks is a 1991 American independent film drama about track and field. It was directed and written by Sandy Tung.
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Across the Tracks is the story of two brothers who have gone very different ways in their past, and who now must learn to deal with each other again. Joe (Brad Pitt) is the older of the two. He is a good student and runner set on winning a track scholarship to Stanford University. Billy (Rick Schroder), on the other hand, is a delinquent involved in drugs and crime. As the story begins, he has just been released from reform school after serving time for a failed attempt at car theft. While Billy tries to make amends for his past life, it is not an easy task. Joe still holds a lot of resentment for what Billy has put their widowed mother (Carrie Snodgress) through, and feels that Billy's return is an unnecessary strain on their family.Actors
Rick Schroder
(Billy Maloney)
Brad Pitt
(Joe Maloney)
Carrie Snodgress
(Rosemary Maloney)
Cyril O'Reilly
(Coach Ryder)
Jack McGee
(Frank)
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