Rated R for some violence, disturbing images and language.
119 Minutes

They’re gonna catch up with us. They’re gonna catch up with us and they are going to kill us. -The Wife

Set to debut in America on November 25th, The Road, based on the wildly acclaimed novel by Cormac McCarthy will be available to see on the big screen.  The daunting tale that follows an unnamed father called “The Man” and his young son called “The Boy”, who represents the hope of the human race, as they travel across a barren post-apocalyptic America that was destroyed and by scorched by some unnamed disaster.  It’s cold enough to crack stones, there are ash rains from the sky, and the dark world is bleak with little signs of hope.  Father and Son have only the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food–and each other.  With only a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road their life is perilous and desperate for nothing other than survival.  Though the obvious villains is apocalypse and cannibalism, the real villain is clearly man vs. himself and the inner struggles of living in such an epicly depressing existence.

Billed to be the lead star in “The Road”, Viggo Mortensen had to drastically reduce his weight. Though playing the character has made him tired physicallyhe claimed his role was more emotionally demanding. “Yeah. To be honest, that was the hardest part,” he told Collider in a recent interview.

“It was harder than the physical part, for me. I mean, I’ve been in movies where I’ve had to do physical, you know, whether I was in extreme heat or cold, mountains, horse work, fights, all that,” Mortensen explained. “But it’s a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that’s not just a distraction or a character.”

Talking about playing the character, Mortensen admitted,

“It had to be very sincere or it wouldn’t work because just the landscape we’re in is so real. It’s so raw and in a way it’s such an open wound that our feelings had to be on that level, which was kind of a measuring stick, I felt. And then, I’ve never been in a movie where the environment was so consistently a character. Even though it was dead or dying, it was very alive in its dying, in its death throes. It was so helpful.”

Joining Viggo Mortensen in the cast ensemble are Charlize Theron and Kodi Smit-McPhee who play his on-screen wife and son. The film also stars Guy Pearce and Robert DuVall.  This is one of my most anticipated films of 2009.  I’ll see you at the theater for this one.  Enjoy The Trailer.

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