Revolution is a 1985 British historical drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Robert Dillon, and starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski. The film stars Pacino as a New York fur trapper who involuntarily gets enrolled in the Revolutionary forces during the American Revolutionary War. Revolution received a great deal of negative reviews upon release, and was a box office bomb; its release was delayed in Pacino's native New York City.Due to the disappointment, Pacino took a four-year hiatus from films until 1989's Sea of Love.