Revolutionary Road

The movie Revolutionary Road looks a lot like the with Oscars crowned film American Beauty. Here we can see how even the simplest American dream – a satisfied family life in a house in the suburbs - isn’t working. Frank and April Wheeler are a young married couple. They are living a not much exciting life of the middle class exactly like their neighbors but they are feeling that they don’t belong here. April is not attracted by the idea of the housekeeper and the nursemaid of her own children. She wants to become an actress and she is trying to convince her husband Frank to move to Paris because she feels she can self-realize here. And Frank is also not happy with his career as an office rat but instead of dreaming of Paris he drinks a lot and flirts with his secretary. As they unit dreams and hopes are shattered, their relationship is shattered too. Their only way back to the top is a radical solution. But at first they have to find the strength to do it. Without the strength their relationship is doomed to annihilation. This movie is the adaption of the same-named book from Richard Yates. The book was rated as one of the best 100 English books and many hope that the movie will be as good as the book, maybe even better.

Revolutionary Road, drama, 119 min, USA, 2008

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