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Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) have always seen themselves as special and far removed from the conformity of suburbia. And yet conformity is exactly what creeps up on them when they buy a house in Connecticut. Frank toils ten hours a day at a job that he hates, while April, now a typical 1950s homemaker, yearns for fulfillment and passion. Rebelling against the stifling torpor of their lives, the couple plan an escape that may push them to the limit of their being.
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Maybe it's a cheap shot to call "Revolutionary Road" "American Beauty" without the laughs, but it gets to the heart of the problem. The British director of "Beauty," Sam Mendes, has returned to probe the existential angst of American suburbia, but this time he has a great novel at his back, and he's weighed down with his responsibility to literature. This film isn't told, it's Told. There will be a quiz. (Full review)
Sam Mendes, the director of "Revolutionary Road," injects a few milligrams of hope into his film version of the 1961 Richard Yates novel, an excoriating portrait of a mid-1950s marriage built on sticks, straw and delusion. It is a harsh, merciless book. Yet you wouldn't call it solemn, and along with a redemptive grace note or two, the film - which is extremely well acted - lays it on pretty thickly. However sterling the craftsmanship, the film adaptation inflates the meaning and buffs the atmospheric surfaces of Yates' story, rather than digging into its guts. (Full review)