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John Hillcoat


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  • The Road
  • The Road review by acatris from Caerphilly
    Rated - 0.0 stars Highly anticipated but sadly disappointing. 11 January 2010
    ...John Hillcoat's vision of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' is a very tactile experience. The definition of sight and sound seem to morph into taste and touch as you feel the cru...   Read customer review

John Hillcoat - filmography


  • The Road on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Kodi Smit-McPhee,  Charlize Theron
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Post apocalyptic tale based on the bestselling novel by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Men). A father and son travel on foot through a devastated American landscape, battling both starvation and cannibals.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 42,970 members
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  • The Proposition - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Ray Winstone,  Danny Huston
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,675 member
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  • The Proposition on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Guy Pearce,  Tom Budge,  Emily Watson
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 15,535 members
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  • To Have And To Hold on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Tcheky Karyo,  Rachel Griffiths,  Steve Jacobs
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Australian romantic author Kate (Rachel Griffiths) believes her own lovelife has taken a fairytale turn when she meets the rugged Jack (Tcheky Karyo), who has left his Papua New Guinea home to visit the mainland. Returning to his remote island retreat, Kate begins to suspect Jack is not the man of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 89 members
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  • Ghosts...of the Civil Dead (1988)
    Starring: Dave Field,  Mike Bishop,  Chris De Rose
    Director: John Hillcoat
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Hillcoat makes a remarkable début with this brutal depiction of prison life. The technology appears futuristic, but the New Generation prison under scrutiny is very much a contemporary phenomenon based on the production team's research. The film unfolds in flashback, detailing the violent incidents ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 11 members
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John Hillcoat facts

5 most recent films

Wettest County - 3.0 stars
The Road - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Road - 3.0 stars
The Proposition - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Proposition - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Road - 3.0 stars
The Proposition - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Road - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Proposition - 3.0 stars
To Have And To Hold - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Wettest County - 3.0 stars
Ghosts...of the Civil Dead - 3.5 stars
To Have And To Hold - 2.0 stars
The Proposition - 3.0 stars
The Road - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Guy Pearce - 6 times - show films
John Hurt - 3 times - show films
Emily Watson - 3 times - show films
Tom Budge - 3 times - show films
Danny Huston - 3 times - show films