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Revolutionary Road [DVD] [2008]

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Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates, Kate Winslet, John Behlmann
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

26 reviews
Sales Rank: 301

Format: PAL
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5051188156633
ASIN: B001SAO32C

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 29, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In emRevolutionary Road/em, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunite for the first time since their careers exploded with emTitanic/em--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 emRevolutionary Road /emmay 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 (emMisery/em), Dylan Baker (emHappiness/em), and especially Michael Shannon (emBug/em) 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. --emBret Fetzer/em

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Stunningly good. July 23, 2009
M. Adil-smith (london)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am not a critic who is easily impressed. br /Nor am I a fan of either Winslet or Di Carprio. br / br /However, this film is simply knockout stuff. br /Focussing on unfulfilled characters in an unravelling marriage, this story pulls no punches. Di Caprio is an emasculated marketing man. Winslet a house wife with delusions of being an actress. Both had dreams of becoming so much more, but these seem to have been put on hold for suburban life. br / br /The script is great, although the dialogue a little wordy on occasion; I'm not certain that Di Caprio's character would have been so emotionally forthcoming given the era this is set, but Winslet's bile and resentment at the slow shattering of her dreams but have made husband/director Sam Mendes wonder where she was pulling her inspiration from. br / br /I honestly thought I would hate this film, but what has emerged is a genuine masterpiece.

5 out of 5 stars

What is that marxist title indeed? April 14, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful

This film could have been a melodramatic mash and it is not. In fact the situation and the various developments make it quasi-tragic. Tragic because it is the story of a totally impossible epiphany for a couple who is living in our modern society. There is no escape from the present programmed and even pre-fabricated life in which we all live. We have practically no freedom of choice. The only freedom of choice we do have is to refuse a possible promotion, a potential chance in this life, and we will end up on the dump, the manure pile. There is no choice because we have to pay for the house, the car, the children's education, and so many other things. There is no real choice because our psyches have been pre-determined into accepting the small little tiny wee box that has been attributed to our life. Our psyche is always opportunistic and it always goes the way the wind blows. Even a simple accident, like an unwanted pregnancy, the result of a negligence as for preventive protection, the result of going out bareback when it is well known we are supposed to go out covered, if we want to really have a choice, becomes the direst tragedy of all times. But we are in such a formatted life that we forget something because "they", the big brothers of this brave new world, have mesmerized us into forgetting. There is no simple way out, there is no way out at all. Any attempt at trying to evade the consequences of this event will lead to an even worse catastrophe, like death, or suicide, or death by suicide or suicide by death. Tragic indeed. I will also add that the main two actors are outrageously outstanding. They play their anger, their disorientation, their psychoses, their schizophrenias even with such realism and conviction that we may think they are playing their own roles, their own parts, their own private fate and destiny. It is true the cameraman is also quite prodigious. The way he takes the profile of Di Caprio when this one is supposed to be stubbornly refusing any move brings out this stubborn-ness revealed by the very line of the forehead seen under that profile angle, a Neanderthal or apish profile indeed. It is such details that make an actor and a film remarkable. It is true too that the insane, deranged son of the real estate agent is truer than nature, more prophetic about this society than all the Bibles of the world, than all the Freuds and Marxes of this low, low world of ours. br / br /Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID br /

5 out of 5 stars

Kate Winslet reminds me of Jack Nicholson in OFOTCN July 31, 2009
David Butler (Devon)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The other reviews here give too much away and in my view will spoil the viewing pleasure. I will try to write a review without spoiling the enjoyment of discovery: br / br /If you read the blurb, you might think:, why is a film like this being made today, aren't we all liberated? And then you watch the film. Shocking. Brilliant. At one point early on I almost turned it off, I couldn't bare the tension. I was reminded of watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the first time, with Kate Winslet as provocative as Jack Nicholson.

5 out of 5 stars

Revolutionary Road August 3, 2009
Sam
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Great film, great cast especially Kate and Leonardo. They both work well together as in Titanic. Knew I wanted the film on DVD as soon as I saw it at the cinema. Would recommend

5 out of 5 stars

Best film I have seen in a long time August 10, 2009
Amy (West Midlands)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Really cannot get over how great this film is. br /The story line is very simple, about the 2 main characters life together, but I have never seen a relationship come to life, flourish and then flounder and disintergrate before my eyes so convincinly. The acting was superb. The 'mentally unstable' character came across to me as both partners conscience. He spoke the unspoken. br /Just loved it.

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