Minute A Day About Movies
Thursday Minute
No. 120 | June 17, 2010
Take Five
Our theme this week
Movies that provide (a certain) R&R
Featured this week (theme introduction)
Monday — Rio Rita (1942)
Tuesday — Rambling Rose (1991)
Wednesday — The Rebel Rousers (1970)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Just a hunch, but I don’t think Richard Yates used to watch Leave It to Beaver, or Ozzie and Harriet, or Father Knows Best, or Make Room for Daddy. Domestic problems with easy answers were not his strong suit.
Yates was a brilliant chronicler of 1950s suburban anxiety, and Revolutionary Road, his first novel (and National Book Award finalist), was at last adapted for the big screen by director Sam Mendes and an excellent cast in 2008. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are Frank and April Wheeler, a young married couple struggling to escape the emptiness of their perfect lives, with Michael Shannon stealing a few scenes as the troubled son of a friend daring to speak the truth.
If the mythic TV view of 1950s life is too much for you, Revolutionary Road is the bitter antidote.
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Sam Mendes, director
Trailer
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Richard Easton, and Michael Shannon
Quote of Note
“If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.”
—April Wheeler (Kate Winslet), Revolutionary Road (2008)
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