Drama & Adaptation
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
119 min. 2008
Rated: R for language and some sexual content/nudity
How do you break free without breaking apart?
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.