Deidra e Laney rapinano un treno

A combination of drama and teen adventure. It is about sisters who steal trains when their mother suffers a crisis and is imprisoned. An interesting movie. Current. How far would you be able to go to support and save your family? It is a moral premise that you question throughout the film, they steal to eat and stay together. Is it justifiable? Entertaining. Quality. With pleasant and funny moments. Addresses the importance of family and support.

I loved the characters, all of them. Even the outrageous psycho train dick.

Ashleigh Murray plays Deidra, the oldest sister, highly intelligent, valedictorian, the only one in her class with any hopes of getting into a top university. But when her Mother gets thrown into jail in a fit of insanity, Deidra is left to try and pay the bills and her college dreams fade. Food is down to a half bag of potato chips. Social services is pounding on her door, threatening to take her siblings Laney, played by Rachel Crow, and her brother to foster homes.

Deidra comes up with a plan: robbing freight trains that roll by her backyard with her shy little sister, a helmeted teddy bear, and fencing the stuff (detergent as an example, until they learn to read the labels on the crates) wholesale. Through the planning of the robberies and subsequent twists and turns, I fell in love with the two sisters, rooting for them to succeed at every turn.

Sounds heavy, but the movie is light, funny, and lovable. For me, Deidra & Laney is an edge of the midnight movie seat, unable to even take a break to grab a snack, and staying until the last credit rolled movie. And lastly, I appreciated a plot I haven't seen before, in a rural poverty stricken setting, and having mixed race kids as the protagonists.

"Deidra and Laney Rob a Train" is set in a non-descript town where almost no one goes to college, the local rail yard doesn't pay a sustainable wage, and signs of the town's glory days have littered the town's visual landscape. There's a lot of talk lately about showing more people of minority races on TV but this is a film that shows a landscape of economic depression that doesn't discriminate against people of either color. The two protagonists are bi-racial and neither their African-American mother nor their white father can make enough to provide them a brighter future (though points go to mom for trying quite a bit harder).

When the titular characters' mother gets incarcerated, they decide to rob the insides of slow-moving freight trains to raise money for their bail. The film gets interesting when exploring the dangers and logistics of such an act. Like a lot of the film, the appeal is in exploring a corner of Americana that has been right under your eyes most of your life.

Deidra and Laney are astereotpical with the elder sister being an overachiever in school and Laney being angst-filled and Laney filled with a mixture of angst and a desire to fit in. She's bullied quite a bit and these scenes are perhaps the cruelest in the film to stomach if you haven't seen much of this genre. The film is filled with a few familiar faces (Sasheer Zamata of "Saturday Night Live", Missi Pyle, and Tim Blake Nelson) but mostly thrives on new talent and these actresses have a lot of room to surprise us.

It's a worthwhile watch.

I love my RACHEL in this movie , ever since I saw her singing debut on whatever singing show I saw her on as a child! She is the best ...but other than that... this is a take it or leave it type of flick. The "felon father" was probably the best acting role in the movie imo.

...And I don't care to hear kids cussing...and cussing... and cussing...

When mom makes a scene and gets carted off to jail, her daughters need money to pay the bills. Including mom's bail money. So they hatch a plan to rob a train... which happens to run through their yard. They go through with it, and if we buy into some pretty unlikely events, and...they pull it off! While discussing self esteem issues. It's mostly silly, but there are some funny bits. The guidance counselor who just wants to escape this town. The high school students will do just anything to get into a college. The beauty contestants who trip each other to win. Life in a small town. It's silly, but not bad. Directed by sidney freeland. Story by shelby farrell. Stick around for a fun scene about halfway through the closing credits.