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The Road

• Rating: 14-A (for some violence, disturbing images and language)
• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Release Date: November 27th, 2009
• Runtime: 1hr 51m
• Official Website: http://www.theroad-movie.com/
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• Credits

• Director: John Hillcoat
• Producer: Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz, Nick Wechsler
• Cast: Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Viggo Mortensen, Garret Dillahunt, Molly Parker, Michael K. Williams, Brenna Roth, Matt Reese
• Writer: Cormac McCarthy, Joe Penhall
• Distributor: The Weinstein Co./Dimension
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• Synopsis

• "The Road" is a post-apocalyptic dramatic thriller about a father and his son walking 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. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food -- and each other.

• Movie Review

  While Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road could hardly be deemed unfilmable, the way it conveys its primary themes of survival, moral responsibility and fierce paternal love throug... Read Full Review >>