Revolutionary Road

A Sam Mendes (of American Beauty fame) film based on a 1961 Richard Yates novel. A young couple moves from the big city to the suburbs and purchase a quaint home on Revolutionary Road because that is what life dictates you must do. But first, the trailer:



OK, you have a job you despise, but it pays the bills. Say you want to fly away to Paris and chase your artsy goals, but you have kids. You think you're special but in actuality you just live in the cookie-cutter existence of suburbia, does it really have to be this way?

Dreams push you on. Sometimes the dreams are thwarted by real life. And when the episodes of real life are tangibly heart-wrenching and complicated, the fantasy of chasing your dreams clashes with the reality of solid problems and sometimes frankly unsettling problems.

A film that when all is said and done physically exhausts you. The drama and tension is palpable. Afterwards, I'm spent.

Still, in my humble opinion, it just misses a Full Price score and yields a firm Matinee Plus.