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The Road. The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer ...
- 287
- Cormac McCarthy
- September 26, 2006
- Alfred A. Knopf
Nov 25, 2009 · A father and his son struggle to survive in a world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and find out more about this bleak and powerful film based on Cormac McCarthy's novel.
- (249K)
- Drama, Thriller
- John Hillcoat
- 2009-11-25
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. The film received a limited release in North American cinemas ...
- $27.6 million
- Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz
- $25 million
A father and his son travel on foot to the southern coast, seeking a warmer climate in a post-apocalyptic world. They face dangers, hardships, and moral dilemmas along the way, until the father dies and the son meets a new family.
Sep 26, 2006 · The Road is unsteady and repetitive--now aping Melville, now Hemingway--but it is less a seamless blend than a reanimated corpse: sewn together from dead parts into a lumbering, incongruous whole, then jolted to ignoble half-life by McCarthy’s grand reputation with Hollywood Filmmakers and incestuous award committees.
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- Hardcover
- Cormac Mccarthy
The Road. R Released Dec 18, 2009 1h 50m Drama Mystery & Thriller Sci-Fi List. 74% 218 Reviews Tomatometer 68% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score America is a grim, gray shadow of itself after a ...
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- Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
- R
In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea. It's a post-apocalyptic world, several years after whatever the cataclysmic event, which has in turn caused frequent quakes as further potential hazards. The world is gray and getting quickly grayer as more and more things die off.
