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The Road full movie is released on Nov 25, 2009. Watch The Road online - the English Drama movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $27,639,579. The Road is directed by John Hillcoat and created by Joe Penhall with Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The Road is available online on The Roku Channel and Hoopla.

It's a post-apocalyptic world, several years after whatever the cataclysmic event, which has in turn caused frequent quakes as further potential hazards. The world is gray and getting quickly grayer as more and more things die off. A man and his pre-teen son, who was born after the apocalypse, are currently on the road, their plan to walk to the coast and head south where the man hopes there will be a more hospitable environment in which to live. The man has taught his son that they are the "good people" who have fire in their hearts, which in combination largely means that they will not resort to cannibalism to survive. The man owns a pistol with two bullets remaining, which he will use for murder/suicide of him and his son if he feels that that is a better fate for them than life in the alternative. Food and fuel are for what everyone is looking. The man has taught his son to be suspect of everyone that they may meet, these strangers who, out of desperation, may not only try to steal what they have managed to scavenge for their own survival, but may kill them as food. Although life with his father in this world is all the boy has known, he may come to his own thoughts as to what it means holistically to be one of the good or one of the bad. Meanwhile, the man occasionally has thoughts to happier times with his wife/the boy's mother before the apocalypse, as well as not as happy times with her after the apocalypse and the reason she is no longer with them.

As know as:

Droga, El ultimo camino, Yol, El último camino, Ha'dereh

Release Date:

Dec 18, 2009

Release Date (Streaming):

May 25, 2010

Countries:

United States

Language:

English

Stream Service:

Weinstein Co.

Production Companies:

Dimension Films, 2929 Productions, Nick Wechsler Productions

Gross worldwide:

$27,639,579

Taglines:

In a moment the world changed forever.

Reviews

Shadow and Act Staff
Shadow and Act
I still recommend The Road; just keep in mind that this is Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale, not Richard Matheson's.
by rottentomatoes, Sep 13, 2022
Deborah Ross
The Spectator
I cannot say how faithful this is but, having read other McCarthy books, would say the novel probably repaid your attention with its astonishing prose. This, though, puts you through the wringer, but doesn't repay you in any way.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 30, 2018
Ed Koch
The Atlantic
It wasn't fascinating at all. The movie looked like it cost $500 to make, excluding actors' salaries, which were worth another $500.
by rottentomatoes, Jan 16, 2018

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