
On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old s... (Full plot summary below)
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On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital. Their 10-year-old son Josh is playing cello - beautifully, as usual. His younger sister looks up to him, and his parents are proud of their son. On the way home, they all stop at a gas station on Reservation Road. There, in one terrible instant, he is taken from them forever. On a warm September evening, law associate Dwight Arno and his 11-year-old son Lucas are attending a baseball game. Their favorite team, the Red Sox, is playing - and, hopefully, heading for the World Series. Dwight cherishes his time spent with Lucas. Driving his son back to his ex-wife, Lucas' mother Ruth Wheldon, Dwight heads towards his fateful encounter at Reservation Road. The accident happens so fast that Lucas is all but unaware, while Ethan - the only witness - is all too aware, as a panicked Dwight speeds away. The police are called, and an investigation begins. Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as do Grace and Emma. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to make the hardest choices of their lives.
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| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyGeorge's heart is in the right place, but his storytelling skills and narrative logic are not, resulting in another incoherent film unable to decide whether it's a thriller, family melodrama about loss or revenge actioner. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe best efforts of the performers cannot authenticate a plot that no longer feels inevitable. It feels contrived. And the audience stays at a remove instead of entering someone else’s nightmare. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThere's a kind of tough beauty to this deft, satisfying thriller. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderCentered around coincidences so extraordinary they pull me out of the film. |
| Filmcritic.comChris CabinEven more than its lame dissection of white grief, Road has no moments of actual tension for a film that has been called, in many publications, a thriller. |
| Old School ReviewsJohn A. Nesbitfodder more suitable for a moralistic made-for-TV "after school special" |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.George's thriller reveals itself to be nothing more than a by the numbers melodrama that's only saved by the excellent performances... |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Andrew WrightExtremely well acted, admirably evenhanded, and wholly respectful of a subject that could easily devolve into Lifetime-channel schmaltz. It just fails to make much of an impression. |
| Dallas Morning NewsChris VognarFor all of the roiling emotion, it feels oddly flat, distant and one-dimensional. |
| NewsdayJan StuartAn arduous melodrama set in a high-tax-bracket corner of Connecticut. |