The Road (2009)
What will happen after the end of the world? There is a man and his young son wandering around after the end of the world, trying to keep the dream of American civilization from being lost. They both start an exciting and dangerous journey by traveling to the sea, trying to do whatever they can to explore in that journey of civilizations and cultures. The man and his son try to avoid those roving gangs of savage humans who turn them into slaves after they arrive at those places that seem more exotic and brutal.
1983, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
13 June 1996, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
12 July 1984, Sewickley, Pennsylvania, USA
22 November 1966, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
31 August 1953
29 July 1985, Low Moor, Virginia, USA
24 November 1964, Castro Valley, California, USA
20 October 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
7 August 1975, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
29 March 1971, Great Falls, Montana, USA
22 May 1969, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
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.
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?
June 16, 2011
Unpleasant post-apocalyptic drama.
September 24, 2014
A remarkable, haunting picture worth multiple viewings.
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.
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.
March 11, 2014
The Road is one of the year's strongest dramas. But it's no picnic, to say the least.
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.
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 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.
