Monday, March 28, 2011

Flims Similar to Revolutionary Road

American Beauty
-Sam Mendes, 1999. (Also the director of Revolutionary Road)
-The film won five Academy Awards.
-(Not set in the 1950s)

"Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/



The Stepford Wives 
-Bryan Ederhart, 1975.

"Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073747/



Remade in 2004
-Frank Oz

"What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech terrifying little town, in a very modern comedy-thriller."

-The idea world, woman robots that do whatever you want them to do.


Shoot The Moon
Alan Parker, 1982

"A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He's preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them."


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