The Road: Book vs. Movie
John Hillcoat’s The Road (2009) adapts Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel. A father and son travel through a devastated country, searching for food and shelter while trying to avoid other survivors.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Year
- 2006
- Pages
- 287Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 6 hr 39 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Tom Stechschulte
A father and his young son push their belongings along roads through a country where almost nothing grows and surviving people hunt for whatever remains. The father concentrates on keeping the boy fed, warm, and out of strangers’ reach. The boy keeps asking whether they can help the people they encounter, forcing his father to account for the goodness he still promises they possess.
- Director
- John Hillcoat
- Writer
- Cormac McCarthy, Joe Penhall
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 1 hr 52 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce
- Genre
- Drama, post-apocalyptic
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
After the collapse of civilization, a man takes his son south toward the coast, searching abandoned houses for food and hiding from travelers who may be hunting people. Memories of the boy’s mother interrupt a journey governed by hunger and the father’s failing health. The child’s willingness to trust strangers puts pressure on a parent who sees suspicion as their best protection.
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