Revolutionary Road (2008)

Revolutionary Road rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 235K votes

Rotten Tomatoes67%

Metacritic69%

TMDb6.983/10· 4K votes

With 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 69/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Revolutionary Road

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.

Cast of Revolutionary Road

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  Leonardo DiCaprio

  as Frank Wheeler

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  Kate Winslet

  as April Wheeler

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  Kathy Bates

  as Mrs. Helen Givings

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  Michael Shannon

  as John Givings

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  Kathryn Hahn

  as Milly Campbell

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  David Harbour

  as Shep Campbell

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  Dylan Baker

  as Jack Ordway

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  Richard Easton

  as Mr. Givings

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  Zoe Kazan

  as Maureen Grube

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  Jay O. Sanders

  as Bart Pollock

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  Max Baker

  as Vince Lathrop

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  Max Casella

  as Ed Small

Revolutionary Road facts

Budget

$35M

Box office

$76M

Our take on Revolutionary Road

Sam Mendes's 2008 drama, adapted from Richard Yates's novel, follows a young couple in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s as they struggle with their private discontents while raising two children. It's an intimate, melancholy portrait of marriage and thwarted ambition, dissecting the quiet suffocation beneath a picture-perfect suburban life. The mood is somber and character-driven, more concerned with disillusionment and unspoken tension than plot momentum. This suits viewers drawn to serious relationship dramas and unflinching studies of domestic unhappiness. If you appreciate literary adaptations, period detail and emotionally raw performances about the gap between the life imagined and the life lived, Revolutionary Road offers a demanding, resonant experience rather than easy comfort.