Road To Perdition

Thriller, Crime

Tom Hanks	Michael Sullivan
Paul Newman	John Rooney
Tyler Hoechlin	Michael Sullivan Jr.
Jude Law	Harlen Maguire
Liam Aiken	Peter Sullivan
Jennifer Jason Leigh	Annie Sullivan
Daniel Craig	Connor Rooney
Ciarán Hinds	Finn McGovern
David Darlow	Jack Kelly
Dylan Baker	Alexander Rance
Stanley Tucci	Frank Nitti
Doug Spinuzza	Calvino
Diane Dorsey	Aunt Sarah
Harry Groener	Mr. McDougal

Director	Sam Mendes
Producer	Sam Mendes; Dean Zanuck
Writer	David Self; Max Allan Collins
Cinematography	Conrad L. Hall
Musician	Thomas Newman

Road to Perdition is the story of a man on the road to redemption as well as perdition. Michael Sullivan Sr. (Tom Hanks) is the enforcer for John Rooney (Paul Newman), who heads up an Irish-American organized crime syndicate. Unfortunately for Sullivan on one of his assignments for Rooney, his son Michael Jr. finds his way to the scene of the enforcing and becomes a witness to the crime syndicate's activities. Sullivan is forced to choose between Rooney, who has become like his father, and his son and embarks on a bittersweet journey to escape from the clutches of the life that he has lived. On their journey they attempt to gain freedom from the mob and also to escape a killer sent to track them down named Harlen Maguire (Jude Law) Sullivan's only hope on the road to Perdition, Illinois is that his son will not follow in the footsteps of his father.