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The Road (2009) Official Trailer #1 - Viggo Mortensen Movie HD

The Road(2009)
Released
2009 · FILM

The Road

A desperate father escorts his young son across a barren wasteland toward a rumored safe coast, racing against ruthless cannibal gangs while their last remaining bullet dwindles and hope grows ever thinner.

“In a moment, the world changed forever.”

Directed by
John Hillcoat
Written by
Joe Penhall, Cormac Mccarthy
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
111 min
DramaThriller

Synopsis

A father and his son travel alone through a post-apocalyptic America, where the land is scorched and lifeless. The only movement is the ash carried by the wind and the water. The cold is so intense it can crack stones, and when snow falls, it is gray in color. They are heading toward the warmer south, though they have no certainty about what, if anything, lies ahead.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 29

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jon GregoryShot by Javier AguirresarobeScored by Nick CaveDesigned by Chris Kennedy

Box Office

2009 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$27.6M

Budget$32.0M
Worldwide gross$27.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $8.1M — 29% of worldwide · International: $19.5M (71%)

Opening weekend: $475K — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $475K — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 88 theaters

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Also known as

  • The Roadde
  • La carreteraes
  • La Routefr

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