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Director John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is finally getting screened for critics as it's playing at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival. While the film is getting mixed reviews, I don't care. This is a film I cannot wait to see no matter what people say. Also, I'm a huge fan of Viggo Mortensen and he's the lead. Anyway, the Weinstein Company has released 5 clips from the film and it totals 12 minutes of footage from the movie. Since I will be seeing the movie within a week, I didn't watch any of the clips. But if you want to check out some of the footage, it's after the jump - along with the synopsis. Take a look:

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THE ROAD

Director: John Hillcoat

Writer: Joe Penhall

Producers: Nick Wechsler, Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz

Executive Producers: Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan, Rudd Simmons

Approx. 119 minutes

From Cormac McCarthy, author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, THE ROAD. Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-start cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of survival of a father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smith-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. A masterpiece adventure, THE ROAD boldly imagines a future 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.

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