Anyone not living under a rock has probably seen previews for the big-screen version of Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel The Road, which hits theaters November 25. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as a nameless father struggling for survival alongside his boy, played by 13-year-old Australian TV actor Kodi Smit-McPhee. (Mortensen’s real-life son—Henry, 21—is the product of his now-defunct marriage to Exene Cervenka, front woman of seminal LA punk band X.)

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