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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Dec 26, 2008 Limited

Box Office: $22,877,808

Synopsis: Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where... Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama based on Richard Yates's novel is devoted to watching the destruction of their marriage and their selves in 1950s suburbia. Frank works at a job he hates in New York City, then commutes home to two children and a wife who feels none of them belong in their cookie-cutter town. Their realtor (a fine Kathy Bates) recognizes their specialness and introduces them to her mentally unstable son (BUG's Michael Shannon, in another good, unhinged performance) in an effort to establish some normalcy for the man. However, Frank and April's marriage is not as perfect as it seems to the outside world, and the audience gets to witness their downfall. With its commentary on conformity and finding identity, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD bears more than a passing resemblance in both theme and tone to the TV series MAD MEN and director Sam Mendes's previous film AMERICAN BEAUTY. The characters here may live in a polite age where men wear ties and hats and women clean the house in skirts and heels, but the dialogue often enters brutal territory. Less capable actors wouldn't have been able to capture the volatile chemistry between Frank and April, but DiCaprio and Winslet are as wonderful at uttering sweet nothings as they are at tearing each other apart with verbal barbs. Mendes, directing his wife, Winslet, for the first time, is a perfect match for the source novel's lack of sentimentality and its wry commentary on life in the 1950s that still resonates half a century later. [More]

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Kathy Bates, Zoe Kazan

Director: Sam Mendes

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

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Jun 2, 2009

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

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Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

Additional Scenes:

  • 1. Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Sam Mendes and Screenwriter Justin Haythe

Featurette:

  • 1. Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road HD
  • 2. Richard Yates: The Wages of Truth HD

Audio Commentary:

  • 1. Sam Mendes - Director, Justin Haythe - Screenwriter

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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
01/10/10
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
08/30/09
Sonny Bunch
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times

Middlebrow self-consciousness

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
08/26/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

jo%u0161 jedan primjer u dana%u0161njem Hollywoodu sve iritantnijeg %u017Eanra "dajte mi Oscar" filmov

Full Review Source: Index.hr | comment Comment
07/15/09
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
Index.hr

It plays like Douglas Sirk without the irony.

Full Review Source: DVD Review | comment Comment
06/03/09
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 Comment
05/27/09
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
04/21/09
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
03/21/09
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
03/02/09
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Miss FlickChick

Suburban malaise has seldom been better looking or better acted.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
03/01/09
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
02/11/09
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
02/11/09
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
02/09/09
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
02/08/09
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 4 Comments
02/05/09
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
02/05/09
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 Comment
02/05/09
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
02/05/09
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
02/03/09
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
02/02/09
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total
 
 
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