Film

Across the Tracks

2015 · 15m

IMDb

7.7

Tara and Ella Hines are sisters living very different lives. Tara is a big city architect with a fighting spirit that has brought her great success. Ella, a few years younger, never left the hometown of their youth and has been the primary caretaker of the family. Estranged for 40 years, they are brought together finally with the death of their mother. Through a series of flashbacks, their childhood in rural 1960s Georgia unfolds. The "Coloreds only" bathroom and side entrance to shops. The train tracks that separated the town by skin color. We see them navigate this world full of inferiority and bullying, ultimately leading to Ella's decision to become white. As the sisters lay their mother to rest, the past rises up to meet them and we're finally shown the moment that tore their family apart.

Don Battee

Walter Lee

Nicky Buggs

Mama

Berkeley Clayborne

Young Ella

Brynn Crosby

Young Tara

Thursday Farrar

Tara

Britney Heard

Sandra

Reese Houston

Susie

Madalin Jones

Jane

Shelby Grace Jones

Lizzie

Alina Lia

Tara's Assistant

Carla McCullough

Ella

E. Roger Mitchell

Daddy

Eric Oliver

Pastor

Mattilyn Winburn

Brittany

Andrew Winkler

Chuck

Austin Winkler

Bobby Ray

• Michael CookeDirector · Writer · Producer
• Kimberly JamesWriter · Producer
• Don BatteeProducer
• Errol SadlerProducer

Release date

March 1, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

15m