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Name: The Road
Released: 2009-11-25
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall

The Road

R
1h 52m
2009

74%

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In the years following a world-shattering apocalyptic event, a father and son travel on foot through the charred remains of North America, struggling to survive on a quest to reach the ocean. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

Director:

John Hillcoat

Producer:

Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz

Writer:

Joe Penhall

Cast:

Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

74%

Critics Consensus: The Road's commitment to Cormac McCarthy's dark vision may prove too unyielding for some, but the film benefits from hauntingly powerful performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi McPhee.

Reviews

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Don Shanahan

Bleak and grim are understatements. It's hard to come away liking a movie with this little innocence or hope.

While The Road is not without its impressive aspects, it has not efficiently pulled taut the slack created by the loss of McCarthy’s commanding prose. And so, it is hard to avoid the sense that it needn’t have been made at all.

Plan to see it twice—once to familiarize yourself with its unconventional, non-commercial method of storytelling, and a second time that allows you to submerge into the material, to appreciate how stunningly composed it is.

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.

I still recommend The Road; just keep in mind that this is Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale, not Richard Matheson's.

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