REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

Year: 2008
USA: DreamWorks/Paramount Distribution
UK: Paramount Pictures UK
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Shannon, David Harbour, Richard Easton, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins, Zoe Kazan, Dylan Baker, Keith Reddin, Max Casella, Max Baker, Jay O Sanders, Michael Shannon, Dan Da Silva, Chandler Vinton, Kristen Connolly, John Behlmann, Jon Sampson, Duffy Jackson
Director: Sam Mendes
Countries: USA / UK
USA & UK: 119 mins
USA Rated: R for language and some sexual content/nudity
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
USA Release Date: 25 December 2008
UK Release Date: 30 January 2009


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Synopsis

Adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (Kate Winslet) Wheeler. Yates' story of 1950's America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever since: can two people break away from the ordinary without breaking apart?

Frank and April 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 apathy 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 meaningless job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfilment 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.

Directed by Sam Mendes (Academy Award® winner AMERICAN BEAUTY), from a screenplay by Justin Haythe, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD features an accomplished supporting cast including Academy Award® winner Kathy Bates, Kathryn Hahn (BOEING-BOEING) Michael Shannon (BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD) and David Harbour (AWAKE).