Revolutionary Road [Blu-ray] | ![Revolutionary Road [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AgYlUYG9L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  178 reviews
Sales Rank: 18265
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 42864
UPC: 097361428642
EAN: 0097361428642
ASIN: B001KZIRKE
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 2008
Release Date: June 2, 2009
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Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 2-JUN-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
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In Revolutionary Road, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite for the first time since their careers exploded with Titanic--and it's almost as if they're playing the same characters, only married and faced with the hollowness of a 1950s suburban existence. Frank and April Wheeler (DiCaprio and Winslet) always thought of themselves as special, but they settled in a conventional Connecticut suburb when they had children. Hungry for a less constricted life, April persuades Frank to move to Paris--but slowly their plans unravel and their marriage unravels along with it. While Revolutionary Road may be a bit too glib about suburban emptiness--the lives Frank and April lead don't seem so stifled--the portrait of a mismatched marriage is vivid and devastating. The ways that Frank and April misinterpret each other, and the subtle yet unbearable dissatisfaction they feel, is rendered with remarkable and unsettling acuteness. Winslet and DiCaprio's natural chemistry tells us what drew these two together, making the way they tear each other apart all the more shocking. The excellent supporting cast includes Kathy Bates (Misery), Dylan Baker (Happiness), and especially Michael Shannon (Bug) as a mentally troubled mathematician who cuts to the quick of the Wheelers' troubles. Mention must be made of the beautiful production design; the costumes and sets are simply gorgeous. --Bret Fetzer
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 If I could give this a -1 star rating I WOULD!! AWFUL February 8, 2010
jesus4me (MD USA)
This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I guess going in I thought it would be a love story about a couple that encountered some problems. Maybe it's my fault for not doing my research! Regardless of that fact, the movie was an awkward drama about a couple who for some reason couldn't stop arguing and yelling at eachh other. This goes on for most of the movie. I found myself asking the question...why? What is this all for?! It lacked plot, purpose, and flow in the storyline. Just an awful movie all together and a terrible waste of two talented actors. HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED, would NOT recommend. I only payed $1 to rent this from the Red Box and I want a REFUND!! (lol)
 Predictable Melodrama That Proves Once Again, Nostalgia for the '50s is Misplaced January 27, 2010
VIDFAN (Astoria, NY USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I was impressed by Winslet and DiCaprio's acting, I couldn't believe how predictable and unoriginal this film was. How many films do we need to remind us that the 1950s wasn't such a great time to be alive? And that all those neatly manicured lawns and sharp-looking fedoras came at a price? I assume films like this are aimed toward Baby Boomers who bore younger people with endless tales about how great their 1950s childhoods were. For the rest of us, this is just a soap opera. Yes, there was conformity. Yes, there wasn't a birth control pill and women had to do their own abortions. Yes, men had to be the sole breadwinners and had to put their family first. Yes, the suburbs are soul-killing and boring. Even Winslet's role felt derivative, an updated version of her character in "Jude the Obscure". Every plot twist was signaled a mile away. When DiCaprio eyes a sexy brunette in the office, I said to my friend, "they will have an affair." They do. When Winslet starts dancing with her handsome neighbor, I said, "they will have an affair." They do. When DiCaprio goes back to being an office drudge, I said, "she will kill herself, I bet." And she basically does. No surprises, just a drawn out melodrama with doses of star power, some self-important social commentary and yes, the enlightening revelation that the 1950s were, indeed, a repressive era.
 A Case of a Husband Not Ever Actually "Hearing" His Wife January 24, 2010
Michael A. Newman (New Hyde Park, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dark period piece about a 1950's couple (Winsett and DeCaprio) who meet at a party in Manhattan. She is an aspiring actress and he is a fun guy with very few aspirations other than being something like a delivery guy.
The scene shifts forward a few years and Kate is in a play that is apparently a dud. Leo, now her husband, tries to comfort her saying that at least she was the best thing about the dismal play. This does nothing to quell her disappointment. He than pulls the car over (they were driving) and starts yelling at her, telling her that it is unfair for her to be blaming him for her failure (this was not true). He nearly hits her and this scene is a harbinger of things to come.
Throughout the film it seems that Kate's dreams are constantly shattered while Leo muddle's through life oblivious to her needs. Kate feels that her life as a housewife in a suburban home with two kids (that was supposed to be the American dream back then) is a boring existance and her husband constantly tells her how boring his job is and that he only keeps it to pay the bills.
Kate comes up with an idea where they will go to Paris to live. Leo had always told her it was the most fun place he had ever been to. She thinks that this would be perfect as she would put meaning to both of their lives where she can work and support him until he figures out what he wants to do rather than toil away at something meaningless.
The whole thing sounds like a chance to live out a possible dream but Leo does everything to thwart it. Whether it be starting up an affair with a girl in the steno pool or wanting to stay at the job he has because his father worked there for twenty years.
The realtor (Cathy Bates) that sold them their house becomes a regular friend of theirs and convinces them to let her bring her son to visit even though he currently resides in a mental institution. The son may be crazy but he is the only one who sees their relationship for what it really is and has an uncanny knack for seeing through lies.
As the movie goes on Leo keeps killing his wife's dreams to a point that she becomes unfeeling and kind of crazy herself. I liked this film for showing that the American dream of the 50's wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
 I was definitely surprised! Dark feminism, 1950's style January 20, 2010
Quickbeam (Oconomowoc, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had read a lot about this movie and how dreary it was. I was clueless as to how much of a feminist treatise it was. Spoiler alert! I knew it was about 2 idealists trying to slum it in the suburbs but the real message for me was how hopelessly trapped the Kate Winslet character was by motherhood. This is very much the tone of feminist literature of the period; the stranglehold of fertility.
I loved the movie and saw, clearly, many aspects of the lives of my mother and aunts of the period...chained by child after child. It is a cautionary tale and a breathtaking one. Watch this with Vera Drake and you'll think a whole lot more carefully about what we have gained in the interim.
The banality of madness January 12, 2010
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I disagree with most of the reviewers here. Most view this film as one of a dysfunctional marriage set in the monotone that was the 1950s. On the other hand, if the film had been set in the 1960s, it would have been viewed as a dysfunctional couple in which one [April] was determined to abandon the 'straight' life whereas her husband [Frank], simply couldn't, with the tragedy that ensues.
As a person who was always uncomfortable with socalled societal conventions, I see it otherwise. April is determined to shake things up but her 'shake up' has no real direction. She wants to relocate to Paris without really knowing anything about it.... As third party viewers, we recognize that Paris will prove even more disappointing than Connecticut. Her husband, Frank, who has been to Paris, is initially carried away by his wife's dream but, learning of her pregnancy, he is jerked back into reality. Not April.
April, who was probably always psychiatrically fragile, slides inexorably into mental illness. Severe mental illness is tragic as is demonstrated graphically in the grim ending of this well-acted tale.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels...'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'...on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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