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Revolutionary Road
In 1955, Frank and April Will began their lives as married but were not entirely happy with their lives and lived within seven years of marriage without thinking about the future. Each of them forgot what they had thrown at him, April forgot his ambition to be a brilliant representative, Frank dislikes his job. After a while, April decided to go to Paris, perhaps it was the place to do what they wanted and renew their life.
22 February 1962, Queens, New York, USA
11 March 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
May 23, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, USA
7 July 1956, New Jersey, USA
16 April 1953, Austin, Texas, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1 July 1974, New York City, New York, USA
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.
April 04, 2011
From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.
August 16, 2011
These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.
October 07, 2015
Mr. Mendes at least has an idea what he should be going for even though he ultimately fails.
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 24, 2009
If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful.
October 21, 2014
There is not a shred of hope, light or even life in Mendes' fourth film.
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 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.
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.
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.
