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The Road

2009Movie1 h 51 minR

Drama
70
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.7/5Metacritic647.4Rotten Tomatoes74%68%
70
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.2Letterboxd3.7/5Metacritic647.4Rotten Tomatoes74%68%

Summary

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

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  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

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  • You need an uplifting mood
  • You want fast pacing

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  • Weighs on you.
  • Breaks your heart.
  • Makes you care deeply.
  • Hits close to home.
  • Leaves you shaken.

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Tropes

Artistic License – Biologyin 2,298 titlesIn a world with dwindling food resources, the cannibals stay alive by maintaining human livestock.Crapsack Worldin 2,246 titlesThe Road presents a world that's less half-empty and more one that's almost completely drained, featuring the most thoroughly Crapsack World in all of highbrow literature, surpassed only by I Have No…All 109 tropes

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