DVD
REVIEW: REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
05/31/09
OVERVIEW:
“Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are brilliant” (Peter
Travers, Rolling Stone) in the mesmerizing epic
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, arriving on DVD June 2, 2009 from
Paramount Home Entertainment. Nominated for three Academy
Awards® and four Golden Globes®, the emotionally gripping
film has been called “amazing” (Peter Travers, Rolling
Stone), “flawless” (Rex Reed, New York Observer) and a
“masterpiece” (Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle).
Directed by Oscar® winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and
adapted from the groundbreaking novel by Richard Yates,
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD won Kate Winslet her first Golden Globe
for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture –
Drama. Reuniting DiCaprio and Winslet for the first time on
screen since Titanic, the incisive portrait of a 1950s
American marriage unfolds as an enthralling drama that is
moving, thought-provoking and “a revelation” (Clay Smith,
“The Insider”).
SYNOPSIS:
Frank and April have always seen themselves as special,
different, ready and willing to live their lives based on
higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house
on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their
independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them
and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of
their era.
Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the
Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn’t
expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone
missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for
fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost
dreams, like any other.
Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious
plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of
Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when
the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes
– one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all
that they have, no matter the compromises.
DVD: Revolutionary Road is is presented in
widescreen enhanced for 16:9 TVs with Dolby Digital English
5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and Spanish 5.1 Surround
and English, French and Spanish subtitles. The picture looks
very clean as is always the case with every of the Paramount
Home Entertainment transfers to DVD. The sound also is
excellent, it was hard for me to find defects in terms of
video and sound.
In terms of special
features the DVD includes
Commentary by director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Justin
Haythe, A total of five deleted scenes, all worth watching
and the Making off featurette, which is a 30 minutes
documentary. In this featurette filmmakers and cast talk
about the film production.
Overall the realism
presented by Director Sam Mendes and by Leonardo
DiCaprio as well as Kate Winslet performances is what makes this film an absorbing call
to reality. This film is without a doubt one of the best
film of 2008.
VIDEO:
2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen 16x9
AUDIO:
English
5.1, French 5.1 and Spanish 5.1 (Dolby Digital).
Subtitles - English Spanish
French- Optional
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Commentary by director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Justin
Haythe
Lives of Quite Desperation:
The Making of Revolutionary
Road
Deleted Scenes with
optional commentary by director
Sam Mendes and
screenwriter Justin
Haythe
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