During the Depression, a mobster (Tom Hanks) takes his son along as he seeks to avenge the murders of his... (Learn more)
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Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law
The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing murder in the name of his employer, John Rooney (Paul Newman). A kindly, aging Irish crime boss who raised Sullivan as his surrogate son, Rooney is affiliated with Al Capone in Chicago and thus wields great power in the "Tri-Cities" of Moline, IL; Rock Island, IL; and Davenport, IA. Curious about his father's mysterious profession, Sullivan's son, Michael Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin), stows away in his father's automobile one night and witnesses the execution of a man at the hands of Sullivan and Rooney's biological son, Connor (Daniel Craig). Although Michael keeps his promise to remain silent about what he's seen, the paranoid and unstable Connor tries to wipe out the entire Sullivan clan anyway, succeeding only in killing Sullivan's wife, Annie (Jennifer Jason Leigh), and youngest son, Peter (Liam Aiken). Enraged at this and another surprise betrayal by the Rooneys, Sullivan embarks on a path of bloody retribution, Michael in tow. Although he intends to leave his boy with relatives in the rural town of Perdition once the coast is clear, he ends up exposing Michael to the goriest aspects of his talents, slaughtering former associates as he dodges contract assassin Maguire (Jude Law) and cripples the cash flow of the Rooney and Capone organizations through a series of bank robberies, attempting to force either mob family to offer up the sequestered Connor as a sacrifice. Inspired by the popular Japanese comic book series Lone Wolf and Cub and based loosely on an episode from the life and career of notorious real-life crime figures John and Connor Looney, Road to Perdition co-stars Stanley Tucci as legendary Chicago mobster Frank Nitti. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
7/12/02
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
119 mins.
Locations
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$104,054,514
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor [Runner-up] award at the 2002 Toronto Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 2002 American Society of Cinematographers [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion award at the 2002 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound Editing award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Young Performer award at the 2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2003 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2002 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography (Runner-up) award at the 2002 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Supporting Actor award at the 2003 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Young Actor/Actress award at the 2003 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Score award at the 2002 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- 20th Century Fox
- DreamWorks
- DreamWorks Home Entertainment
