Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee crouch in the woods, hiding from a gang of unsavory survivors in The Road.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play a father and son on a perilous journey to survive the post-apocalyptic future of The Road.

A large fire lights up the night in The Road.

Viggo Mortensen cuts Kodi Smit-McPhee's hair in John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Road. The father/son duo has to survive however they can in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Director John Hillcoat looks through the camera while setting up a shot in The Road.

Father and son walk through an ominous tunnel on their trek down The Road.

Theatrical poster for The Road featuring an image of Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee from behind as they walk down a perilous path in a post-apocalyptic future.

Theatrical poster for The Road, featuring an image of Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as father and son on a perilous journey through a post-apocalyptic future.

Michael K. Williams plays a menacing thief in John Hillcoat's big screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee walk by an abandoned truck on the highway as they travel along The Road.

Humanity is left to pick up the pieces after most of the world is destroyed in an unnamed cataclysm in Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee haul their belongings in a tattered shopping cart as they trek down The Road.