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Released
1988 · FILM

Track 29

Was he her dream or obsession? Was she his mother or his lover?

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
86 min
DramaMystery

Synopsis

Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry. But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tony LawsonShot by Alex ThomsonScored by Stanley MyersDesigned by David Brockhurst

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$429K

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$429K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $19K 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $52K12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Also known as

  • Track 29 - Ein gefährliches Spielde
  • Ruta 29es
  • Mille pezzi di un delirioit

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