Revolutuionary Road is directed by Sam Mendes who also brought us the 1999 multi-Academy Award winning film American Beauty. This new film revisits many of the same themes as American Beauty:   white upper-middle class prosperity and accompanying ennui and the search for meaning in a life as empty as the sweet little house in the suburbs that Frank and April Wheeler, the subjects of the current film, buy. Revolutionary Road, however, goes back forty years before American Beauty to the … [Read more...]