The Road (2009)
In an exciting story that speaks beyond the end of the world. A wandering man and his sick little son after the end of the world, trying to keep the dream of American civilization alive. They both begin their journey with each other by traveling to the sea, trying to do whatever they can to explore on that journey. The man and his sick son are trying to avoid those roving gangs of savage humans who turn them into slaves and perhaps turn them into something worse in a strange and exciting journey.
24 November 1964, Castro Valley, California, USA
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
29 March 1971, Great Falls, Montana, USA
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
29 July 1985, Low Moor, Virginia, USA
13 June 1996, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
22 November 1966, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
September 24, 2014
A remarkable, haunting picture worth multiple viewings.
September 28, 2012
The Road is a highly emotional, involving, palm-sweatingly tense movie that will scar you for life if you let it. Exhausting to watch but oddly exhilirating to experience, it's a film you'll watch once but will never forget.
November 30, 2009
It hits a few tinny, sentimental notes. Still, I admire the craft and conviction of this film, and I was impressed enough by the look and the performances to recommend that you see it.
October 21, 2010
Hillcoat does his best, and for the most part, he succeeds. The horrifically desolate landscape and the drab greys and cobalt blues of the scarred sky pervade every shot.
November 29, 2009
In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat -- through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee -- carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.
December 02, 2009
Hillcoat certainly provides the requisite seriousness, but what the movie lacks is an underlying sense of innocence, a sense that, however far humanity has sunk, there is at least some chance of rising again.
November 29, 2009
How could anything so bleak be so promising?
November 30, 2009
What's unnerving is that the end of the world was shot on location. Apparently, if you want to see doom, just go to New Orleans or Pittsburgh.
March 11, 2014
The Road is one of the year's strongest dramas. But it's no picnic, to say the least.
January 08, 2010
Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph. Stunning landscape photography sets the melancholy mood, and Nick Cave's wrenching score reinforces it. But it is the performances that ultimately hold the film together.
June 16, 2011
Unpleasant post-apocalyptic drama.
