This faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel is set in a post-apocalyptic USA after an unexplained global catastrophe has wiped out most of the world. Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) gives an outstanding performance as the man, a survivor and desperate father headed on a long dangerous journey with his young son to the sea. On their trip across a burned out America, they encounter the remnants of human life, some good, some bad, including a blind, elderly man (Robert Duvall) who presents an ethical dilemma to the father trying to teach his son how to survive, to let the man die or share food with him. John Hillcoat has directed an ultimately moving story of survival.