Revolutionary Road

Release Date: Friday 30 January 2009
Certificate: 15
Runtime: 119mins

Friday 30th January 2009, 1:32PM GMT.

Based on the novel by Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road documents the disintegration of a seemingly perfect marriage in ’50s suburban Connecticut, where the white picket fences and impeccably mown lawns project an image of suburban bliss to mask the infidelity, betrayal and regret.

Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) meets independent beauty April (Kate Winslet) at a Greenwich Village cocktail party and they marry soon after, raising two children, Jennifer (Ty Simpkins) and Michael (Ryan Simpkins).

Seeing themselves above the hoi polloi, Frank And April make ambitious plans to move to Paris with their children, where she can take a well paid secretarial position at a government agency and he can work out what he wants to do with the rest of his life, and escape the drudgery of his soulless office day job.

Dreams shatter as Frank strays with one of the secretaries and an increasingly unhappy April encourages the unspoken desires of married next-door neighbour, Shep (David Harbour).