Revolutionary Road

4.50
    Revolutionary Road
    2008

    Synopsis

    A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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    Cast

    • Leonardo DiCaprioFrank Wheeler
    • Kate WinsletApril Wheeler
    • Kathy BatesMrs. Givings
    • Michael ShannonJohn Givings
    • Kathryn HahnMilly Campbell
    • David HarbourShep Campbell
    • Dylan BakerJack Ordway
    • Richard EastonMr. Givings
    • Zoe KazanMaureen Grube
    • Jay O. SandersBart Pollock

    Recommendations

    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      There isn't a banal moment in Winslet's performance--not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so.
    • 88

      ReelViews

      Revolutionary Road is a fine motion picture, but it's not a good choice to lighten a burden or brighten a night. It rewards in the ways that only tragedies can.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      DiCaprio is in peak form, bringing layers of buried emotion to a defeated man. And the glorious Winslet defines what makes an actress great, blazing commitment to a character and the range to make every nuance felt.
    • 80

      Newsweek

      Instead of losing myself in the story, I often felt on the outside looking in, appreciating the craftsmanship, but one step removed from the agony on display. Revolutionary Road is impressive, but it feels like a classic encased in amber.
    • 80

      Variety

      A near-perfect case study of the ways in which film is incapable of capturing certain crucial literary qualities, in this case the very things that elevate the book from being a merely insightful study of a deteriorating marriage into a remarkable one.
    • 80

      Film Threat

      I couldn't escape the fact that Revolutionary Road seems like a really, really good episode of "Mad Men." There's smoking, drinking, cheating and like the excellent TV show, the lure of a bigger better deal always rules the day. But the film differs in many ways once you get beyond surface appearances.
    • 80

      New York Daily News

      As a whole, Sam Mendes' film of Revolutionary Road comes close but falls short of capturing Richard Yates' terrific novel.
    • 75

      NPR

      Director Sam Mendes makes '50s suburbia a persuasively suffocating place — he did the same for '90s suburbia in "American Beauty," remember.

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