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What would you do to ensure your own survival? How far would you go to protect your most precious loved one? At what point is it better to be dead than to be alive? These questions about the very limits of the human experience drive “The Road,” John Hillcoat’s cinematic adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy (“No Country for Old Men”).

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