The Road
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John Hillcoat's more human apocalypse...... It's taking away from the here and now, which is how are they going to survive each day? It's taking away from that journey." The Road, which opens across Canada this Friday, centres on two unnamed protagonists, a father and son... In this article: John Hillcoat, Viggo Mortensen, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Suicide, Waste, Global warming, Concussion, and Joe Penhall |
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The Hullabaloo | 20 hours ago
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...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...
In this article: Thanksgiving, New Moon, Michael Oher, The Blind Side, Cormac McCarthy, Old Dogs, and Robin Williams
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 21 hours ago
US talk queen Oprah to end show in 2011
...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...
In this article: Oprah Winfrey, Cormac McCarthy, US, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Joint venture, Discovery Health Channel, University of Maryland, Forbes magazine, and Discovery Communications
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OK! Magazine | 22 hours ago
Michael K. Williams Has Man Crush on Viggo Mortensen
"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...
In this article: Michael K. Williams, Viggo Mortensen, Barack Obama, God, Taylor Swift, OK!, Lord of the Rings, and Britney Spears
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Centre Daily Times | 23 hours ago
The Road'
...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
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Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | 1 day ago
79% Road
...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...
In this article: Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar, The Road, No Country for Old Men, No Country for Old Men, Telluride Film Festival, and Netflix
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Detroit Free Press | 2 days ago
Upcoming films: 'Ninja Assassin,' 'The Road'
...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...
In this article: Old Dogs, Viggo Mortensen, Robin Williams, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, John Travolta, and Detroit Free Press
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Times Online | 4 days ago
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
...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...
In this article: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, God, and No Country for Old Men
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Times Online | 7 days ago
Cormac McCarthy talks about The Road
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...
In this article: Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, Suicide, God, All the Pretty Horses, Charcoal, and Coal
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The Huffington Post | November 12, 2009
Jenna Busch: Viggo Mortensen Hits The Road
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...
In this article: The Road, Viggo Mortensen, Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, Caffeine, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Entertainment Weekly | November 09, 2009
Movie Preview: The Road
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...
In this article: John Hillcoat, Cormac McCarthy, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Viggo Mortensen
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Road is a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, most life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.
- Name:
- The Road
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Written By:
- Cormac McCarthy
- Published By:
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Length:
- 256 pp
- ISBN:
- 307265439
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardcover)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- September 26, 2006
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