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Directed by | Chris Evans |
Produced by |
Howard Baldwin Karen Elise Baldwin Chris Evans William J. Immerman Mark Kassen McG Mary Viola |
Written by |
Ronald Bass Jen Smolka Chris Shafer Paul Vicknair |
Starring | Chris Evans Alice Eve Mark Kassen |
Music by | Chris Westlake |
Cinematography | John Guleserian |
Edited by | John Axelrad |
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Distributed by | RADiUS |
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95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3 million |
Box office | $388,904 |
Before We Go (previously titled 1:30 Train) is an independent romantic drama film directed by Chris Evans in his directorial debut, and starring Evans, Alice Eve and Mark Kassen. The film had its world premiere in the special presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released on video on demand on July 21, 2015, and had a limited release on September 4, 2015 in the United States by Radius-TWC.
While busking in Grand Central Terminal, Nick Vaughan (Chris Evans) sees a woman running by to catch the 1:30 a.m. train to Boston dropping and breaking her phone. She misses the train and is forced to return. Nick returns the phone to the woman, Brooke (Alice Eve). When he finds her standing outside the terminal she confesses that she has just been robbed and is trapped in the city. He offers to pay for a cab to take her to Boston but his credit cards are declined. When he tries to call a friend to come loan him the money he finds his phone has died. Nick offers to try to pay for a room for Brooke to stay in overnight, but she insists that she needs to return home before the morning.
Nick decides to help Brooke find her missing purse. The two are able to track it down at a sweatshop that deals in stolen purses but for his efforts to retrieve the purse Nick is punched in the face. The two try and go to Nick's friend's wedding in order to find his friend to loan him money and instead end up at an event where they are mistaken for members of the band. Nick and Brooke perform My Funny Valentine before being forced to flee when the real band shows up. After their last ditch attempt to get a bus to Boston fails as they don't have enough money, Brooke borrows a man's phone and calls a friend whom she begs to go to her house and retrieve a letter she has left for her husband that she does not want him to read.