Based on Denis Johnson’s novella, Train Dreams is described as a moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
Visions of the Western United States —its woods and landscapes— both entice and haunt Grainier throughout his life, evoking unanswerable beauty and heartbreak that circle around and around the logger and railroad worker, nonlinearly over the course of the film.
Every fall, farmers haul in thousands of tan-skinned Dickinson pumpkins, which are a smaller, denser, and sweeter variety than your average jack-o’-lantern.
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Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
The Blue Jays got out to a 3-0 lead with a three-run jack from Bo Bichette.
Some are upward of 60 years old and produce famously delicious wild nuts that few living people beyond foresters, researchers, and volunteers have ever tasted.
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