Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
by Sam Mendes
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Actor: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liam Aiken, Rob Maxey, Tom Hanks, Tyler HoechlinDirector: Sam Mendes
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Cherylanne Martin
Producer: Dean Zanuck
Producer: Joan Bradshaw
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck
Writer: David Self
Writer: Max Allan Collins
Writer: Richard Piers Rayner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Movie Reviews of Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Can the son survive his father's death?
Summary: 4 Stars
Nothing to brag about. One more film about the end of prohibition and Al Capone. One more film on the mafia, both Italian and Irish. And yet this film has a slightly different touch. It is the fact that the father-son issue is widely explored. A mafia boss has a foolish and cheating son. He protects him and takes under his wing another man, Michael Sullivan, to transfer his paternal love onto someone worth it. Unluckily a detail one night brings the son of this latter man, Michael Sullivan Jr., into the act of witnessing the son of the mafia boss killing another good man on the spur of his anger. This son of a mafia boss will then try to clean up his plate and start killing everyone connected to that embarrassing witness. Michael Sullivan Sr. then has to get on the road of vengeance after the killing of his wife and younger son. He thus escapes the killers with his older son and yet he will end up falling in the last trap out of sloppiness, maybe just to be even with fate and God. The only survivor will be Michael Jr. All the others will be dead and happily buried. There is a slight empathy in that filial and paternal situation. An entertaining film indeed.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
Summary of Road to Perdition (Widescreen Edition)
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/13/2007 Run time: 117 minutes Rating: RIn Road to Perdition, Tom Hanks plays a hit man who finds his heart. Michael Sullivan (Hanks) is the right-hand man of crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), but when Sullivan's son accidentally witnesses one of his hits, he must choose between his crime family and his real one. The movie has a slow pace, largely because director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) seems to be in love with the gorgeous period locations. Hanks gives a deceptively battened-down performance at first, only opening up toward the very end of the film, making his character's personal transformation all the more convincing. Newman turns in a masterful piece of work, revealing Rooney's advancing age but at the same time, his terrifying power. Jude Law is also a standout, playing a hit man-photographer with chilling creepiness. This movie requires a little patience, but the beautiful cinematography and moving ending make it well worth the wait. --Ali Davis
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