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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 dream...
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The Road is a murky harbinger of our future, but perhaps...
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Nov 24, 2009 · Roger Ebert reviews the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, set in a post-apocalyptic America where a father and his son struggle to survive. He praises the actors and the production, but laments the lack of McCarthy's poetic prose.
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Oct 21, 2021 · “The Road” is the most readable of his works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization — “the frailty of everything revealed at last.
Sep 26, 2006 · A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.
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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 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.
