The Road
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.
Plot
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified catastrophe results in an extinction event which caused the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. The man and boy travel on a road to the coast in hope that they can find safe haven, scavenging for supplies in their journey, and avoiding roaming cannibalistic rape gangs armed with guns.
More details
author | Cormac McCarthy Joe Penhall |
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contentLocation | United States of America |
director | John Hillcoat |
editor | Jon Gregory |
genre | drama science fiction |
keywords | animal life explore extinction event flare gun freeze good guy locked in old man plant life shoot |
musicBy | Nick Cave |
producer | Nick Wechsler |
productionCompany | 2929 Entertainment American Film Institute |
publisher | Dimension Films |
recordedAt | Pittsburgh |
theme | disaster narrative post-apocalyptic survival |