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Revolutionary Road
In a dramatic story in 1955 involving two married people. Frank and April Will lived in their marriage for seven years but are not happy with their lives. Each of them forgot what they were throwing at him, April forgot his goal of being a brilliant representative, Frank dislikes his job which forced him. One day, April decided to go to Paris, to get what they wanted and to renew their lost life.
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
6 May 1981, River Edge, New Jersey, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
26 March 1981, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 21, 2014
There is not a shred of hope, light or even life in Mendes' fourth film.
June 22, 2013
Most of the way, the film feels more like a documentary about the couple than a corrosive study of either of them.
January 09, 2009
Bitter, nerve-wracking, ugly and relentless, Revolutionary Road is Big Drama done right, a mesmerizing look at desperate lives, wrong moves and spoiled dreams that hits hard right from the beginning and never lets up.
April 04, 2011
From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.
October 07, 2015
Mr. Mendes at least has an idea what he should be going for even though he ultimately fails.
August 16, 2011
These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.
February 08, 2009
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.
September 07, 2013
Revolutionary Road's portrait of a disintegrating marriage is so unflinching, so unsentimental, and so bleak, that you really need to be in a buoyant emotional state to get through the movie.
January 09, 2009
Viewers in the mood for rip-snorting marital combat should go ahead and partake, but they must prepare to leave the theatre in a state of profound depression.
January 30, 2009
This is a sobering, well-observed film that doesn't fully hit the mark but sets up enough pleasing ideas to chew on regarding ambition, marriage and ideals of how to live one's life, individually and as a couple.
August 23, 2010
Mendes has made a troubling film that wrestles with big themes and touchy subjects, even if it is set in an overly familiar milieu.
January 24, 2009
If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful.