Revolutionary Road

April (Kate Winslet) and Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job, and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.




Trivia

• First movie Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Kathy Bates have worked on together since Titanic (1997).
• Director Sam Mendes opted to watch the monitor from another room while directing the love scene between DiCaprio and Winslet.
• This is the first film collaboration between Kate Winslet and husband Sam Mendes
• It's the first time Kate Winslet plays a character named April, the second time Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character named Frank, and the third time Kathy Bates plays a character named Helen.
• Child actors Ryan Simpkins and Ty Simpkins , who play Frank and April's children, are real-life siblings.