Charlize Theron, Garret Dillahunt, Guy Pearce

From Cormac McCarthy, author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, THE ROAD. Academy Award-nomin...( read more  read more... )ee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortsensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren Americathat was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece adventure, THE ROAD boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of—a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.

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R, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: John Hillcoat

Release Date: November 25, 2009

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November 20, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material. full review

November 16, 2009
David Edelstein, New York Magazine

Evocative as it is, The Road comes up short, not because it's bleak but because it's monotonous, and because McCarthy's vision is finally as inflexible as his patriarchal hero's. full review

October 15, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Road is a film that, to quote Mark Twain, knows the words but not the music. It evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthy's novel, but lacks a core of emotional feeling. full review

September 14, 2009
Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine

Very moving. full review

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