Road

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Movie Info

In ROAD, Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer on her first big job, uses the latest government-supplied technology to survey environmental disaster areas. Jay(Ebon Moss-Bachrach), her unemployed ex-boyfriend is along for the ride. The trip does not go exactly as planned and through their own moral lapses, the act of a fickle God or maybe just a paranoid delusion â" the couple are forced to confront their relationships to the environment, the world at large and each other. -- © Ghost Robot Productions

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Directed By:

Leslie McCleave
Written By:

Leslie McCleave
Runtime:

92 minutes
Studio:

Ghost Robot

Cast

Catherine Kellner
as Margaret

Ebon Moss-Bachrach
as Jay

Jeffrey Ware
as Oswald

James Urbaniak
as Ranger

Jeff Ware

Rebecca Harris
as Lynn

Chris Messina
as Larry

Martin Zentz
as Postal Supervisor/Gas Attendant

Jayne Houdyshell
as Postal Clerk/Gun Shop

Neal A. Corl
as Charlie the Cook

Peter Appel
as Bill the Truck Driver

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Critic Reviews for Road

All Critics (5) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (3)

Writer-director Leslie McCleave knows how to stir the pot, dropping various weird or menacing characters in the couple's path, but by the end of the movie's 92 minutes it still isn't soup yet.

November 16, 2006 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Top Critic
What begins as a faintly unsettling Twilight Zone riff, soon becomes deadly with repetition and a lack of ideas.

November 16, 2006

Robert Koehler
Variety
Top Critic
McCleave, making her feature debut, shows skill and emotion.

November 16, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/4

Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
Top Critic
It's a less "entertaining" movie, but a much more life-affirming one.

March 21, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies
Writer-director Leslie McCleave offers no explanation beyond juxtaposing sour lake beds and radioactive vats with the tension between the former lovers. The environment, with upstate New York standing in for Ontario, rarely looks this distasteful.

March 16, 2007 | Rating: 2/4

Michele Kenner
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel