Revolutionary Road (2008)


Leonardo DiCaprio       Frank Wheeler
Kate Winslet            April Wheeler
Kathy Bates             Helen Givings
David Harbour           Shep Campbell
Michael Shannon         John Givings
Zoe Kazan               Maureen Grube
Ryan Simpkins           Jennifer Wheeler
Ty Keegan Simpkins      Michael Wheeler
Jonathan Roumie         Party Guest
Kathryn Hahn            Milly Campbell
Jonathan Roumie         Party Guest #2
Dylan Baker             Jack Ordway
Richard Easton          Howard Givings
Jay O. Sanders          Bart Pollock
Max Casella             Ed Small
Max Baker               Vince Lathrop

Directed by:            Sam Mendes
Produced by:            David M. Thompson, Marion Rosenberg, Henry Fernaine


Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, 
ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their 
new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia 
that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for 
all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they 
didn't expect: a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker 
starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to 
change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts 
of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse 
is pushed to extremes--one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no 
matter the compromises.

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It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, in the seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that 
appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank 
commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while April stays at home as a housewife. But 
they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and Frank hates his job - one 
where he places little effort - although he has never figured out what his passion in life is. One day, 
April suggests that they move to Paris - a city where Frank visited during the war and loved, but where 
April has never been - as a means to rejuvenate their life. April's plan: she would be the breadwinner, 
getting a lucrative secretarial job for one of the major international organizations, while Frank would 
have free time to find himself and whatever his passion. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to 
April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has 
to to get herself out of her unhappy existence.