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Revolutionary Road (2008)

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Reviews Counted:193

Fresh:132

Rotten:61

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Brilliantly acted and emotionally powerful, Revolutionary Road is a handsome adaptation of Richard Yates' celebrated novel.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexual content/nudity

Runtime: 1 hr. 59 min.

Genre: Drama

Theatrical Release: Dec 15, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $22.9M

Synopsis: Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on... Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn't expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes--one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises. [More]

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Dylan Baker, Richard Easton, Zoe Kazan, Jay O Sanders, Max Casella, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins

Director: Sam Mendes

Director: Sam Mendes
Screenwriter: Justin Haythe
Producer: John N Hart , Scott Rudin , Sam Mendes , Bobby Cohen
Studio: Paramount Vantage

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REVIEWS FOR REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

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The characters in this film are weak-willed, pathetic losers. I just couldn't muster much sympathy for the characters that couldn't burst out of the cages of their own design.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
Jan 10, 2010
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

Revolutionary Road is content to stick with hoary cliches about the emptiness of middle-class bourgeois life.

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
Aug 30, 2009
Sonny Bunch
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times

Middlebrow self-consciousness

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 26, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

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Full Review Source: Index.hr | comment Comment
Jul 15, 2009
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
Index.hr

It plays like Douglas Sirk without the irony.

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment Comment
Jun 3, 2009
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
Felix Gonzalez Jr.
DVD Review

...more of a sedate lecture on values than a revealing or entertaining look at life and love.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment 1 Comment
May 27, 2009
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Can't tell whether Mendes speaks through his characters or speaks about them

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
Apr 21, 2009
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

Similar yet better domestic dramas that come to mind for comparison purposes include "In the Bedroom," "Little Children" and "American Beauty."

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
Mar 21, 2009
Keith Cohen
Keith Cohen
Entertainment Spectrum

Chilly and academic, thoroughly admirable but one step removed from the very real angst of a movie like The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956).

Full Review Source: Miss FlickChick | comment Comment
Mar 2, 2009
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Miss FlickChick

Suburban malaise has seldom been better looking or better acted.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
Mar 1, 2009
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

[Solid] performances took me over some of the bumps of the movie.

Full Review Source: Scene-Stealers.com | comment Comment
Feb 11, 2009
Eric Melin
Eric Melin
Scene-Stealers.com

The result of all this combined talent is a masterpiece of a film that reveals the hidden disease at the heart of American life in the 1950s.

Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope | comment Comment
Feb 11, 2009
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

A road to ruin paved more by mindless conformity than by good intentions.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
Feb 9, 2009
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

Bolstered by Thomas Newman's score, spot-on set design and the brilliant source material, "Revolutionary Road" is a darkly effective portrait of an Eisenhower-era couple who fall tragically short of reaching Camelot.

Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com | comment Comment
Feb 8, 2009
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper.com
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The film is blatantly aimed at the Oscar committee - anyone else may well find it slightly dull.

Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK] | comment 6 Comments
Feb 5, 2009
Mickey McMonagle
Mickey McMonagle
Sunday Mail [UK]

If ever there were a film that aimed for the zeitgeist and missed badly, it’s this one.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment 3 Comments
Feb 5, 2009
Cosmo Landesman
Cosmo Landesman
Sunday Times (UK)

Sam Mendes's film, based on a faithful screenplay by Justin Haythe, is beautifully crafted.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment 1 Comment
Feb 5, 2009
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Sam Mendes has created an intelligent, thoroughly engrossing, beautifully acted adaptation of a classic novel that depicts the tragic underside of America’s sunniest decade.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
Feb 5, 2009
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

The acting is amazing but the story is one long drive to despair

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment Comment
Feb 3, 2009
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

(...) Al menos desde ¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf?, de Mike Nichols (1966), no se veía en el cine estadounidense el resquebrajamiento de un matrimonio de manera tan cruda y tan honesta.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
Feb 2, 2009
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
 
 
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