The Road is a 2009 post-apocalyptic drama film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel of the same name by American author Cormac McCarthy, the film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Filming took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Oregon. The film received a limited release in North American cinemas from November 25, 2009, and was released in UK cinemas on January 4, 2010. A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified cataclysm is destroying... much of life around them, creating a bleak world with the people left reduced to scavenging and even cannibalism. They search for supplies as they travel south on a road to the coast, in the hope it will be warmer. Throughout the journey, the man carries a revolver with two bullets in case they need to commit suicide and suffers repeated bloody coughs. He remembers his wife who lost the will to go on shortly after giving birth to their son and left them, most likely dying.
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| Release date: | September 3, 2009 |
| Directed by: | John Hillcoat |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 119 Minutes |
| Producer: | Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz, Nick Wechsler |
| Editor: | Jon Gregory |
| Music by: | Warren Ellis, Nick Cave |
| Cinematography: | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| Screenplay by: | Joe Penhall |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Road |
| Genre: | Thriller, Adventure |