Revolutionary Road
In an exciting story about two married in 1955. Frank and April Weill began their lives as married and lived during seven years but were not happy with their lives. Perhaps because each of them touched on a different life. April forget his ambition to be a brilliant representative, but Frank denies his job. After a while, April decided to go to Paris, the city of dreams may be the place to achieve their goal.
11 March 1952, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 July 1973, Westchester, Illinois, USA
9 September 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
1968
7 July 1956, New Jersey, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
8 July 1975, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
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.August 16, 2011
These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.April 04, 2011
From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.October 21, 2014
There is not a shred of hope, light or even life in Mendes' fourth film.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 07, 2015
Mr. Mendes at least has an idea what he should be going for even though he ultimately fails.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.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 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.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.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.