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The Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Nov 25, 2009 · The Road: Directed by John Hillcoat. With Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce. In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.
Unflinchingly brilliant and hauntingly bleak, this depiction of a post-apocalyptic future captures the raw essence of despair and survival. Under John Hillcoat's direction, the film offers a grim...
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May 9, 2024 · The Road ending is undeniably bleak. However, the entire movie is one with a lot of depth, and there's clear thematic meaning behind the the journey the Man and the Boy take, as well as the Boy being found on the beach after watching his father pass away. A key theme of The Road is loss.
Nov 24, 2009 · Kodi Smit-McPhee is convincing as a child stunned by destruction, depending on his father in a world where it must be clear to him that any man can die in an instant. The movie resists any tendency toward making the child cute, or the two of them heartwarming.
The Road. In the years following a world-shattering apocalyptic event, a father and his young son travel on foot through the charred remains of North America, struggling to survive on a quest to reach the ocean. 3,586 IMDb 7.2 1 h 46 min 2009. X-Ray R. Adventure · Drama · Bleak · Emotional.
A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization among-st the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's thrilling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.
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Nov 25, 2009 · Based on Cormac McCarthy's beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast in the big screen adaptation of The Road, the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that ...
Nov 25, 2009 · Overview. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.
