Viggo Mortensen
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May 9, 2024 · Summary. The Road ending is as bleak as the rest of the movie, with the father dying slowly from a wound as his son watches. The Boy may find salvation in the ending when a family offers to take him in, but their intentions are ambiguous.
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.
Synopsis America is a grim, gray shadow of itself after a catastrophe. A man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) wander through this post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the...
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Plot. A father and his young son journey on foot across the post-apocalyptic ash-covered United States some years after an undefined extinction event; the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. [7] . The boy's mother, who was pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, has died by suicide at some point after his birth.
Parents need to know that The Road (based on the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy) is a relentlessly grim, gray portrait of a future in which an unnamed disaster has wiped most living things from the Earth, food is scarce, and people have resorted to cannibalism. (In other words, not a kid… Videos and Photos. The Road.
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. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. John Hillcoat.
Sep 3, 2009 · The Road — Film Review. In "The Road," director John Hillcoat has performed an admirable job of bringing Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the screen as an intact and haunting tale.
