YMMV / Revolutionary Road

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Too many to mention. Lets just say that there are many different opinions on Frank and April as people and the merits of their actions. Even characters dwell on interpretations of Frank and April in-universe.
• Award Snub: Neither Kate Winslet nor Leonardo DiCaprio were nominated for an Academy Award for their performances, although they were both nominated for the Golden Globes, with Winslet winning. Plus, she still managed to pick up the Oscar for her other film from that year, The Reader. Since the latter was viewed by many as a tacky Oscar Bait, a few feel this is the film Winslet should have been up for.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In the movie, April's Auto Erotica scene with Shep. Even though there's maybe three seconds early in the film when Shep gazes at her leaving the house, there's otherwise no major foreshadowing for this incident, and it's never spoken of again afterward. Not even when Frank openly tells April he cheated on her. Of course, it's developed in the book and Shep dwells on this episode.
• Dancing Bear: The movie was heavily marketed around the fact that it reunited the leads from Titanic.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Michael Shannon as John Givings, subsequently nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He was in the movie for about ten minutes and was able to subsequently OWN everyone in that movie. That nomination was well-deserved.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: One of the prevailing sources of criticism aimed at the film is that its subject matter is pretty much a repeat of American Beauty.
• Memetic Mutation: Kate Winslet and Leonardo Dicaprio playing an enstranged, hateful, abusive couple inevitably drew plenty of Titanic (1997) jokes, saying that this would have been Jack and Rose's relationship had Jack not died, or joking that Jack is just angry at Rose for leaving him in the cold water.
• One-Scene Wonder: In the book, Norma, Maureen's flatmate, who sits down with Frank to call him out on his affair with Maureen.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • At the end of the film, one member of the couple who move into Frank and April’s house is Kristen Connolly of The Cabin in the Woods fame.
  • Kathryn Hahn as a neighbor in a Stepford Suburbia 13 years before WandaVision.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: What happens when the main characters are a constantly bickering/arguing married couple. And it's Played for Drama. Not to mention how thoroughly unlikable both our lead characters can come across (See Unintentionally Unsympathetic) and the heartbreaking Downer Ending.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Both Frank and April. Even though we're supposed to sympathize with them because they're very unhappy with their relationship, they spend so much of the movie screaming and treating each other like shit while creating more problems than they really need to that it's really hard to see them as likable characters to care about.

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