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The Commuter

Feature Film | USA | 2018
DirectorJaume Collet-Serra
ActorLiam Neeson
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Synopsis

Recently fired insurance agent Michael MacCauley boards his usual train home and is approached by a mysterious woman offering him a large payment to identify one passenger. The task quickly becomes a deadly conspiracy involving hidden cameras, murder, corruption, and a threat to Michael's family. Trapped aboard the moving train, he must use his former police skills to uncover the truth and protect the passengers.

Factoids & Trivia

  • No scenes were filmed aboard a real moving train. The production built a roughly 30-ton train carriage set at Pinewood Studios in England.
  • The carriage was mounted on wheels and a guide track, with a hydraulic system used to jerk it from side to side and simulate the motion of travel.
  • The train's worn seats and fixtures came from a scrap yard in Ohio, helping the production create a more convincing New York commuter-car interior.
  • A specially designed camera rig traveled along the ceiling of the carriage, allowing the camera to move down the aisle and over the seated passengers.
  • The major fight sequence was presented as one continuous shot, but it was created from seven carefully choreographed setups and programmed camera movements.
  • To reproduce the changing light outside the train, the cinematography team filmed reference material during an actual commuter journey from Grand Central Terminal through the Hudson Valley.
  • Joanna's reference to sixteen personality types concerns the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
  • The film was released in the United States on January 12, 2018, and earned approximately $119.9 million worldwide.
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