Should you watch Revolutionary Road?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Revolutionary Road
Film · 2008
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
The sides of Revolutionary Road
- A 1950s couple in a Connecticut suburb
- A plan to move to Paris
- A marriage coming apart
Revolutionary Road is good for you if…
- you like Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio tearing into each other.
- you can take a story where a marriage only gets worse.
- you like people over plot, two lives slowly suffocating.
Revolutionary Road is bad for you if…
- you can't watch infidelity and a despair that keeps growing inside a home.
- you need a warm film for your evening.
About: marriage · conformity · regret
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