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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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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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