Road to Perdition
2002 · Crime · Sam Mendes · 1h 57m
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
- Clearly realistic
- Clearly heavy
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