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Nov 17, 2008 · By Kirk Honeycutt. November 17, 2008 2:05pm. Leo and Kate Winslet's second on-screen romance is complete with an unhappy ending of a different sort. Courtesy of Photofest. The initial audience for ...
Revolutionary Road is American author Richard Yates 's debut novel about 1950s suburban life on the East Coast. It was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1962, along with Catch-22 and The Moviegoer. When published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in 1961, it received critical acclaim, and The New York Times reviewed it as "beautifully crafted ...
Jan 1, 2009 · 15. Original Title: Revolutionary Road. The adaptation of Richard Yates’ novel is understandably trumpeted as a high-class affair, of no little interest because it’s the first time Sam Mendes ...
It also does a good job in costuming (by Albert Wolsky) the players with its time-accurate feel. It is a tough job to adapt a great novel for the big screen. A few, like “Gone with the Wind” and “Jaws,” meet or exceed their source material. Most, though, fall far short of their source. “Revolutionary Road” is somewhere in between ...
Dec 26, 2008 · Watching “Revolutionary Road,” it occurred to me that even less was actually happening in the movie, as most of the scenes consist strictly of dialogue between Frank and April. The difference is that with “Revolutionary Road” I was completely transfixed by what was going on, by the characters, and how brutally they were able to verbally ...
Oct 29, 2019 · Based on Richard Yates’s 1961 novel of the same name and directed by Sam Mendes, the movie follows the downward trajectory of 1950s East Coast couple April (Kate Winslet) and Frank Wheeler ...
In short, "Revolutionary Road" is a decent film that falls devastatingly short of anything resembling greatness. Based upon a critically acclaimed 1961 novel by Richard Yates, "Revolutionary Road" is a two-hour journey through the miserable marriage and lives of Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) Wheeler. Mendes, whose "American Beauty" is ...
