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Road to Perdition
Suspense/thriller film with a runtime of 117 minutes, released in 2002. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Tom Hanks
- Paul Newman
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jude Law
- Stanley Tucci
- Daniel Craig
- Tyler Hoechlin
- Liam Aiken
- Ciarán Hinds
- Dylan Baker
- David Darlow
- Doug Spinuzza
- Rob Maxey
- Nicolas Cade
- Craig Spidle
- Ian Barford
- Stephen Dunn
- Paul Turner
- Maureen Gallagher
- Kevin Chamberlin
- Juanita Wilson
- Roderick Peeples
- Stephen P. Dunn
- Keith Kupferer
- Maurie Gallagher
- Lee Roy Rogers
- Kathleen Keane
- Kieran O'Hare
- Jackie Moran
- Brendan McKinney
- John Sierros
- Jon Sattler
- Michael Brockman
- John Judd
- Christian Stolte
- Jack Callahan
- Kurt Naebig
- Lance Baker
- Monte
- Duane Sharp
- Diane Dorsey
- Michael Sassone
- John Sterchi
- Robert Jones
- Lara Phillips
- Harry Groener
- Mina Badie
- Ed Kross
- Heidi Jayne Netzley
- Phil Ridarelli
- Peggy Roeder
- James Greene
- Jobe Cerny
- Lawrence MacGowan
- Timothy Hendrickson
- Marty Higginbotham
- Doug Coleman
- James Fierro
- Ron Snyder-Britton
- Kerry Sanders
- Jill Bilcock
- Kerry Rossall
- Albert Wolsky
- Richard Piers Rayner
- Dennis Gassner
- Matthew Hall
- Richard L. Johnson
- Scott Millan
- David Tennenbaum
- Scott A. Hecker
- Debra Zane
- Tom Lowell
- Nancy Haigh
- Tara B. Cook
- Dan Striepeke
- Andrew R. Tennenbaum
- David Self
- Cherylanne Martin
- Michael J. McAlister
- Richard Shuster
- Joan Bradshaw
- Conrad L. Hall
- Harrison McEldowney
- Bob Beemer
- John Pritchett
- Rick LeFevour
- Walter F. Parkes
- Allen Hall
- John Pritchett
- William Dambra
- Max Allan Collins
- Mark Howard
