Revolutionary Road R
How do you break free without breaking apart?
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 2, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Dreamworks Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet | |
Performer: | Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Dylan Baker, Max Casella, Jay O. Sanders, Zoe Kazan & Kathy Bates | |
Directed by | Sam Mendes | |
Edited by | Tariq Anwar | |
Screenwriting by | Justin Haythe | |
Screenplay by | Justin Haythe | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Bobby Cohen, John N. Hart, Sam Mendes & Scott Rudin | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins | |
Executive Production by | David M. Thompson, Henry Fernaine & Marion Rosenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Revolutionary Road shows something people think they want to see but really don't: what happens if Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet survive the Titanic.
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n+1
Rating: 3/6 --
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.
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Time Out
3 stars out of 5 -- There's plenty to admire here. DiCaprio and Winslet channel much nuance into their home-based hell.
Total Film
The directing, acting, set design -- it's all top notch; Michael Shannon is especially good...
Premiere
Rating: 4/5 --
Mendes has made a troubling film that wrestles with big themes and touchy subjects, even if it is set in an overly familiar milieu.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
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Richard Roeper.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Ultimately, the performances are (rightly) more involving than the story. By the same token, the actors are more involving than the film.
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Times (UK)
Product Description:
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.
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.
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