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Eastwoods daughter turns director

The daughter of the great Clint Eastwood, Alison Eastwood, is making her directorial debut with a film called Rails and Ties, something that sounds right up the Eastwood's alley.

From The Hollywood Reporter through Coming Soon:

...based on an original screenplay by Micky Levy and revolves around two families and their physical, emotional and psychological collision.
The story begins on a beautiful stretch of the California coastline, where a suicidal mother parks her car on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train with her 9-year-old son in the car.

Certainly sounds like an Eastwood film, pain, angst and human drama and emotion. I wonder if she has the same eye and talent as her father? This is definitely one to watch...

Written by Richard Brunton on June 28, 2006 | Permalink

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Lots of people with tallent never get the chance to make a movie, and now we have to cope with daughters of directors and Bryce Dallas Howard. Well, at least she will have to prove herself.

Posted by: Peter | June 28, 2006 3:19 PM

Yeah, too true. It doesn't strike me as though Clint Eastwood is the type to allow their kids any favours do you? I would imaging he's a stern father believing in finding your own way.

Posted by: Richard Brunton | June 28, 2006 6:59 PM

I have no problems with directors kids dabbling in the same medium as their successful parents have. Sofia Coppola is a good example, she has given us The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, I am not so sure about Marie Antoinette though. As for Bryce Dallas Howard, I have only seen her in The Village but she very much impressed me there, wasnt she also cast as Mary Queen of Scots?

Posted by: Simone | June 28, 2006 10:58 PM