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Two-time Academy
Award® winner Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia”)
heads the cast of the drama “Road to Perdition,”
under the direction of Academy Award®-winning director
Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”).
Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a hit man
for an Irish gang in the Depression-era Midwest. When his
work crosses into his private life, leading to the death of
his beloved wife and son, Sullivan and his surviving son set
out on a journey of retribution and redemption.
“Road to Perdition” also stars Oscar®-winning
screen legend Paul Newman (“The Color of Money”),
Oscar® nominee Jude Law (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”),
Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Jason Leigh (“Mrs. Parker
and the Vicious Circle”), Emmy and Golden Globe winner
Stanley Tucci (“Winchell,” “Conspiracy”),
Daniel Craig (“Elizabeth”), newcomer Tyler Hoechlin
and young actor Liam Aiken (“Stepmom”).
Academy Award® winner Richard D. Zanuck
(“Driving Miss Daisy”), Dean Zanuck and Sam Mendes
produced “Road to Perdition,” with Walter F. Parkes
(“Gladiator”) and Joan Bradshaw (“Cast Away”)
serving as executive producers. Sam Mendes directed the film
from a screenplay by David Self (“Thirteen Days”),
based upon the graphic novel written by Max Allan Collins
and illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner. “Road to Perdition”
is a co-production of DreamWorks Pictures and Twentieth Century
Fox, with DreamWorks distributing the film domestically and
Twentieth Century Fox handling the international release.
Release Date: September 20
Distributor: Fox
Cert: 15
Running Time: 116 mins
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