Review in 100 Words – The Road

Based on the bestselling Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, The Road takes place in post-apocalyptic America and centers on a father and son’s struggle to reach a safe and warm place in a cruel, cold world peopled with cannibals. Viggo Mortensen plays the un-named father, mourning his absent wife (Charlize Theron) and doing anything to keep his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is his hope, alive. Exceptionally faithful to the book, fine performance from Mortensen and Smit-McPhee brighten up the purposefully drab and colorless landscape. Haunting and yet hopeful, prepare for an emotional ride and well-made film.

The Road

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-nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that 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.

Opens November 25th.

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