The Road

...some scenes of intense emotional suspense - the father protects his son from a roving band of cannibals on many occasions - "The Road" delves into something deeper than simple survival. McCarthy layers his novel with haunting glimpses of...

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...and enormous effect. Through her now-defunct televised book club she popularized works including Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." Her stamp of approval was considered so important that she managed to convince the...

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"Come on, we've all been Viggo-tized before," Michael tells PopEater of Viggo Mortensen, the Lord of the Rings stud and his The Road co-star. "He has that charisma, he has a swagger. He's a great dude. " However, Michael is not as frantic...

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...noise. Just the creaking of dead trees, the rumble as some of them crash to the ground. Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel "The Road" makes for a bleak movie, and director John Hillcoat doesn't sugar-coat it. This is a post...

In this article: Viggo Mortensen, John Hillcoat, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, H.G. Wells, Cormac McCarthy, I Am Legend, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Will Smith

...in the faithfully rendered film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's heartbreaking apocalyptic novel The Road. "Up in the Air" generated applause, "The Road" brought people to tears, and "Paranormal Activity" scared them half to death. This...

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...turned upside down when they're placed in charge of 7-year-old twins. John Travolta and Robin Williams star. Rated PG for rude humor. "The Road": A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible. Viggo...

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...they are not the only "good guys" left. Fiction doesn't get much bleaker than this. Nor, however, does it get much better: The Road is a work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away. It will knock the breath from your...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Cormac McCarthy talks about The Road The Road tops our pool of the decade's best 100 books. In a rare interview, its author, Cormac McCarthy, talks about religion, fatherhood and the...

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I just saw a screening of The Road, and I have to say, I haven't been this affected by a film in a very long time. Based on the best-selling book by Cormac McCarthy, The Road is the story of a man and his son (they are not named in the book...

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A full year after its scheduled release, the $20 million adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Oprah-endorsed novel about a man (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) struggling to stay alive in a brutal postapocalyptic...

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