Movie

Train Dreams

2025 • PG-13

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

Content advisory

LGBTQ+ Characters/Relationships

Unrated

Language

mild — The film features mild bad language including terms like 'shit' and 'ass' alongside milder expletives such as 'God', 'hell', and 'damn'.

Mature Themes

moderate — The film explores mature themes including death, bereavement, and grief. The protagonist witnesses multiple deaths, loses his wife and daughter in a wildfire, and copes with sorrow and loneliness throughout his life.

Scary/Intense Content

moderate — There is a scene involving moderate threat where a man enters a forest fire while looking for his missing family members, creating sustained tension and fear.

Sexual Content & Nudity

mild — There is a brief sex scene that includes heavy breathing and thrusting but no nudity is shown. The scene is brief and implied rather than explicit or graphic.

Substance Use

none — There are no reported scenes or references to alcohol, smoking, or drug use in the provided sources.

Violence & Gore

moderate — The film includes several scenes of physical violence with realistic and impactful consequences. A man is dragged onto train tracks and kicked off to his death, another man is shot, and a logger is severely injured by a falling tree branch and later dies. There are also deaths of other workers and a broken leg injury that is treated in the film.