There's nothing glamorous or thrilling about the end of the world in The Road. The planet - people, plants and animals, even the atmosphere - is dying away with a mournful, ugly whimper.
Author Cormac McCarthy's 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - which finally hits screens Wednesday - may be the grimmest of all post-apocalyptic tales. No pretty people bravely facing a future death as in On the Beach. No tough action heroes fighting eccentric villains in the style of The Road Warrior or a hundred other doomsday melodramas.
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