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DVD: Revolutionary Road, Rental & Retail, (Paramount)

Reviewed,Nicholas Barber
Sunday 28 June 2009 00:00 BST
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Sam Mendes' 1950s-set suburban drama doesn't quite work in these credit-crunched times.

Leonardo DiCaprio has a secure, well-paid job as a New York executive; he has long liquid lunches followed by afternoons in bed with his secretary; and then he goes home to a mansion across the road from acres of unspoilt woodland, where Kate Winslet and his two adoring children are waiting for him with a birthday cake... and we're supposed to feel sorry for him?

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