Road to Perdition (Full Frame) - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (2002) Starring Tom Hanks; Paul Newman & Jude Law; Directed by Sam Mendes; Dreamworks Video : OLDIES.com

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Also released as:
Road to Perdition (Widescreen)
Road to Perdition (DTS Widescreen)

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Genre: Drama

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Item Number:
DMWV 89978D

DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame

Audio:

Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English

Additional Release Material:

Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary - 1. Sam Mendes - Director
Making-of
Trailers

Interactive Features:

Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Text/Photo Galleries:

Stills/Photos
Production Notes
Biographies

Major Awards:

Academy Awards - Best Cinematography (2002)

Entertainment Reviews:

Los Angeles Times - 07/12/2002

"...Because it is so careful with its effects, this film's ability to create feeling sneaks up and surprises....This is a story with a will to move us and the ability to do whatever it takes to make that happen..."

New York Times - 07/12/2002

"...A truly majestic visual poem....Mr. Hanks does a powerful job..."

Rolling Stone - 08/08/2002

"...ROAD TO PERDITION has the juice to get its hooks into you, knock you off balance and keep you that way for two hours. It's a triumph for director Sam Mendes..."

Premiere - 08/01/2002

"...[Law] helps bring this dark, strange, and ultimately moving film into disturbing places of the sort that most studio movies can't even imagine, let alone depict..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 07/28/2002

"...Beautifully made, well-acted, brilliantly photographed..."

Total Film - 10/01/2002

"...There's inventiveness, intelligence, even brilliance here..."

Entertainment Weekly - 07/19/2002

"...Hanks and Newman are radiant with the blessings of unstopped talent, two greats from two generations who each understand the power of underplaying..."

Product Description:

Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan, however, leads Rooney's jealous blood son, Connor (Daniel Craig), to orchestrate a tragic series of events that results in Sullivan on the run with his 12-year-old son, Michael Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin). Soon an unscrupulous crime photographer/assassin named Maguire (Jude Law) is sent after Sullivan and his son, and Sullivan must decide on a course of action as young Michael comes to terms with his father's violent way of life.

Meticulously directed by Mendes and brilliantly photographed by Conrad Hall, each scene of ROAD TO PERDITION has the composition of an expertly crafted painting. Making effective use of rain, snow, and shadows, the filmmakers create a cinematic world that's as dark, cold, and unforgiving as many of its inhabitants. But the film also allows for glimpses of emotional warmth, particularly in Sullivan's relationships with his son and Rooney, his surrogate father. In these roles, the respective actors create complex characters that resonate even in their restraint. Hanks is outstanding as a man of action with little time for words, while Hoechlin creates an unsentimental portrait of a confused boy; Newman once again proves why he's a screen legend and, in a strikingly unflattering role, Law makes the most out of his screen time as a creepy, parasitic hit man. Even in its harshest moments, however, Mendes never fails to remind the audience that ROAD TO PERDITION is a film about fathers and sons; and this is what elevates it from an atmospheric gangster movie to a truly astonishing work of art.

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Production Notes:

Theatrical release: July 12, 2002

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Tom Hanks, Paul Newman & Jude Law
Directed by		Sam Mendes
Screenwriting by		David Self
Composition by		Thomas Newman
Director of Photography		Conrad L. Hall
Performer		Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liam Aiken & Dylan Baker
Source Writer		Max Allan Collins & Richard P. Rayner