Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road

How do you break free without breaking apart?

2008119 min7.0 / 10

A bleak, psychologically penetrating portrait of a marriage corroded by unfulfilled ambition and suburban entrapment in 1950s America.

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.

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