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Revolutionary Road (2008) Certificate 15

Revolutionary Road
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Rated 3.0 stars
Average rating
(62%)
 
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio | Kate Winslet | Michael Shannon | Kathryn Hahn | Kathy Bates | Ty Simpkins | Zoe Kazan | David Harbour | Ryan Simpkins | John Behlmann | Kristen Connolly
Director: Sam Mendes
Studio: PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 119 mins
Collections: 100 Most Wanted
Genres: Audio Descriptive | Drama
Languages: English, English Audio Description
Released: June 29, 2009
Also available on: Also Available on: blu_ray

Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn't expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes--one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5
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103 out of 105 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2 stars
Solid enough but lacking any real bite or originality

Daniel Pollard from Manchester, England, 17th February, 2009

The latest film from Sam Mendes the acclaimed theatre director turned Hollywood darling by his first feature, American Beauty. He quickly followed this up with the Road to Perdition, Jarhead and now Revolution Road, adapted from the cult Richard Yates novel. The film returns to the themes first covered by Mendes in American Beauty of mundane, bored and unfulfilled relationships behind the white middle class picket fences of suburban American. Unfortunately, this all sounds very familiar and when the film is running it does feel very outdated and dull. After watching David Lynch’s dark masterpiece Blue Velvet and even Mendes own American Beauty it’s easy to feel this is a soft touch lacking any real bite, satirical edge or originality. On the plus side, the performances are solid, if a little too worthy, the cinematography is neat and unfussy and the supporting roles are good, even if they are very clichéd.

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36 out of 41 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Made for awards not for entertainment

A Customer from Ashton-Under-Lyne, 2nd February, 2009

Fooled by the critics again, we expected this to be a tour de force film that was different than any other, instead we were rewarded by two hours of a chain smoking 50's couple falling out, making up, falling out, shouting at each other and general un-entertaining misery that might be high brow enough in its acting performances to have the various awards bodies clamouring to dish out the gongs, for us mere mortals who want a bit of escapist entertainment if you slept for an hour of this you will have missed 2 minutes, a pretty miserable film that we could not recommended.

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35 out of 43 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Depressing and boring

A Customer from Petworth, 2nd February, 2009

Very disappointing. I really couldn't get into this film, it had nothing remarkable about it at all. The acting was good, but the storyline was weak with no decent scenery. I would have very happily walked out of the cinema. It wasn't even realistic, the kids only appeared a couple or three times. I guess it was trying to put a point across, but by the end of the film I really couldn't care what happened to either of the lead characters.

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19 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1 stars
Mundane Medis!

mrandmrsinsull from , 24th March, 2009

Well, nothing is more depressing than watching a film about a couple that do nothing but argue and basically that is it . the acting is good but the story is dull dull dull - a waste of an hour and 52 mins of your life!

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Rated 3 stars
good drama

A Customer from Maida Vale, 6th November, 2009

I am not a Kate Winslet or Leo fan, but I think Kate did an excellent job in this role and both were so authentic in their charachter. It was nice not to have the usual american suburbia happy ending.

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Rated 1 stars
i thought most boring film i have seen

A Customer from suffolk,england, 5th November, 2009

i did not enjoy this film it was boring to me i didn;t think must of it.i would not recommend it.

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Rated 0 stars
revolutionary road

tryhard from , 5th November, 2009

As the book, the film depicts life as a result of unfulfilled dreams. I thought the book to be bleak....and expected the film to be the same...I was not disappointed, however, a beautifully crafted and suprisingly well acted piece. Thought provoking and uncompromising, the film is not enterainment in its common form, but worth a watch if you think you are hovering on living your dreams, it might push you along

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Rated 0 stars
Depressing

A Customer from North Yorks, 4th November, 2009

A truly dull film, no highlights, poor ending, don't bother.

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