Charlize Theron in what looks to be a nostalgic flashback segment from The Road.

None of the characters in The Road have names. Viggo Mortensen plays a father who must travel the treacherous post-apocalyptic landscape with his son.

The future isn't looking too good in The Road, where an unnamed cataclysm has laid waste to the planet.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee huddle in a ditch in a tense moment from The Road.

Charlize Theron still manages to look sexy after the world falls apart in The Road.

Theatrical poster for John Hillcoat's cinematic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road sports a large Rolling Stone logo and a distinctly post-apocalyptic look.

Viggo Mortensen is the main character in The Road. He's grisly, he's unsure about the future - and he's perpetually protective of his son.

Viggo Mortensen and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee for a walk in The Road. The November 2008 movie is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning book.

The Road won the Pulitzer Prize as a book. Will the movie live up to such hype?