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Overview
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
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- 🗺Adventure🎭Drama🔪Thriller
Release
2009-11-25
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English
Runtime
1 hour 51 minutes
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Roger Ebert
'The Road' evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthy's novel. It is powerful, but for me lacks the same core of emotional feeling.
rogerebert.com/reviews/the-road-2009
Wikipedia
The film benefits from hauntingly powerful performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi McPhee.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(2009_film)
Eye for Film
'Pure, stripped-down bleakness, both in the desaturated drabness of its appearance and in the last-days essentialism of its themes.'
eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-road-film-review-by-anton-bitel
Common Sense Media
The relationship between the man and his 10-year-old son is wonderfully touching and ever hopeful, but the surrounding movie is depressing and sometimes violent, with many depictions of and references to suicide.
commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-road
IMDb
The Road is an excellent atmosphere film, and it delivers the feeling of bleakness and desperation incredibly well, but ultimately the film lacks in both soul and story structure.
imdb.com/title/tt0898367/reviews
IMDb
'We are not gonna quit. We are gonna survive this.' The adaptation remains faithful to Cormack McCarthy's bleak vision while adding a visual representation of a barren landscape and humanity's struggle.
imdb.com/title/tt0898367/
Rotten Tomatoes
Worst movie I have ever seen. I wanted to kill myself after watching this incredibly depressing and harrowing movie. Not one moment of light, not a single sign of hope for anyone.
rottentomatoes.com/m/the_road_2009
