Starring
Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee

In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee.

In this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee), they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. This is a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best that they are capable of; a future in which a father and his son are sustained by love.

The Man (Mortensen) and The Boy (Smit-McPhee) are on the move with all their precious possessions; whatever food and clothing they can scrounge, utensils and tools, plastic bags, tarps, blankets and anything else to keep warm in the frigid, sunless, ash-filled outdoors, on their backs and in a shopping cart outfitted with a bicycle mirror so they can see who's coming up behind them.

Their desperate, improvised travelling gear and their scruffy unwashed bodies give them the look of the homeless, which is they are and what everybody is in this lifeless frontier.

Directed by
John Hillcoat