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.

American Teen

Popularity is everything; breakups and missed jump-shots are the end of the world; a college acceptance is a dream come true; and an email forward to the wrong per is your worst nightmare.

Now experience senior year of high school through the eyes of five real-life Indiana teenagers: the Prom Queen, the Heartthrob, the Jock, the Rebel and the Geek. This revealing year-in-the-life feature delivers the real heartbreak, hilarity, and – OMG – drama of senior year first-hand from five very different viewpoints. And no matter who you identify with, everyone will relate to AMERICAN TEEN

Some trivia:

Through this movie Nanette Burstein manages to move us and show that although technology and fashion may change throughout the years, the reflections of 17 year old teenagers remain the same.

• The movie was the big surprise of the Sundance festival where it won the direction award.
  

• Shots of the movie lasted 10 months , and the students where left free to improvize.
  
• Burstein was looking for a town and school from all social and economical levels. Eventually, the town was Indiana and the school the Warshow.
  

• The hardest part of the movie was the montage. The 1000 hours should be transformed to 100 minutes.
  

• The soundtrack of the movie involves pieces of music from bands such as : MGMT, The Ting Tings, the Black Kids, Frou Frou, Blackalicious, Does It Offend You, Yeah?.