A History of Violence
2005
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Nov 24, 2009 · The Road is not fertile soil, providing a world with life draining from it. McCarthy's greatest novels are Suttree and Blood Meridian. The second, set in the Old West, is about a fearsome, bald, skeletal man named Judge Holden, who is implacable in his desire to inflict suffering and death.
74% Tomatometer 218 Reviews 68% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings America is a grim, gray shadow of itself after a catastrophe. A man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) wander...
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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.
Electricity is gone, food is scarce, and everything has turned cold and gray from falling ash. A man ( Viggo Mortensen) and his 10-year-old son ( Kodi Smit-McPhee) make their way along the dangerous road toward the coast in the hopes of finding something -- anything -- there.
The Road is a smaller, more penetrating film that draws strength from its intimacy and its ability to do so much with so little. Viggo Mortensen gives an emotional tour de force as the embattled father; look for him on the red carpet come March.
Nov 25, 2009 · The Road - Metacritic. Summary 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 ...
While such a depressing, disturbing and disquieting conceit will not be everyone's ideal of almost two hours entertainment, The Road is one of the great films of the 21st century. Full Review...
Nov 24, 2009 · The Road is no tease. It is a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get...
Nov 25, 2009 · No fireballs from the sky. No aircraft carriers being swept by tsunamis into the White House. In contrast to its peers, The Road (based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2006 novel) is a study in understatement and soul-numbing psychological tension.
