Revolutionary Road
Frank and April Wheeler always see themselves as far-removed from the conventionality of suburbia. They then decide to move to Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s where they have to struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
1 December 1981, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
20 July 1976, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
6 June 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
May 23, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, USA
11 November 1974, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 March 1933, Montréal, Québec, Canada
8 July 1975, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
30 August 1979, Camarillo, California, USA
6 May 1981, River Edge, New Jersey, USA
12 July 1980, Montclair, New Jersey, 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.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.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.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.October 07, 2015
Mr. Mendes at least has an idea what he should be going for even though he ultimately fails.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 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.October 21, 2014
There is not a shred of hope, light or even life in Mendes' fourth film.April 04, 2011
From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.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.August 16, 2011
These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.January 24, 2009
If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful.