Man on the train is a brainchild of a director Mary McGuckian. She did an amazing job in directing this fantastic film idea. The story revolves around two persons. One is a mysterious criminal (Larry Mullen Jr.), who has just arrive into town and is planning on robbing the local bank. The other one is a poetry professor (Donald Sutherland) who is in retirement and is living in an old Victorian house. As these two accidentally meet, they start exchanging experiences and form a most unlikely bond between them. With no place to stay, the man gets an offer to stay at the professor's house and be his guest for a while. With the upcoming events- the thief robbing a bank and the professor going to a surgery, this unusual duo spends their time talking about the other guy's life. Throughout the plot viewers can see just how much each of them wants to get even the buts of another one's life experience and life style. With Donald Sutherland as the professor and Larry Mullen Jr. as the criminal, this movie is good at keeping anyone's attention from the very beginning to the end of the outro. Two of them make an amazingly great acting pair in the Hollywood world.