
Rails & Ties(2007)
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.


Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.

Ellie Kendrick
Clover Catto

David Troughton
Aubrey Catto
Jack Holden
James

Joe Blakemore
Harry Catto

Angela Curran
Helen
Joe Attewell
PC Hembry

Clare Burt
Rev. Trusler
Ben Frimstone
Animal Health Officer

John Bell
Fire Performer
Stephen Chapman
Ian Jones
The Levelling is a drama film released in 2017 exploring themes of parent child relationship, flooding, sorrow, death, woman director, loss of brother. Directed by Hope Dickson Leach, it stars Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden. Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
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