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| Revolutionary Road | |
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| Directed by | Sam Mendes |
| Produced by | Bobby Cohen Sam Mendes Scott Rudin |
| Written by | Justin Haythe Based on the novel by Richard Yates |
| Starring | Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet Kathy Bates |
| Music by | Thomas Newman |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Editing by | Tariq Anwar |
| Distributed by | Paramount Vantage |
| Release date(s) | December 26, 2008 |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet. The screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film opened on December 26, 2008.
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Plot
Set in 1955, the plot focuses on the hopes and aspirations of self-assured Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet), who have forsaken life in the city in order to raise their children in the Connecticut suburbs, where they see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates.
April is an aspiring actress who has grown dissatisfied with her life as a suburban housewife and proposes a move to Paris to her husband as a means to reinvigorate their fading marriage. Frank, who despises his job, initially likes the idea, and it is as though a whole new life has been breathed into their relationship. But when the healthy salary increase connected to a promotion at Knox Business Machines makes his position there easier to bear, he becomes less enamored of his wife's proposal. He begins drinking too heavily and engages in an affair with a young secretary from the office in celebration of his 30th birthday, while April has a tryst of her own with neighbor Shep Campbell.
As the Wheelers try to free themselves from their dull existence, their marriage slowly dissolves into an endless cycle of bitter arguments and jealous recriminations while they struggle to maintain a facade of domestic bliss. Only John Givings, the institutionalized son of local realtor Helen and her husband Howard, is able to see what's simmering beneath their surface.
Production
Director John Frankenheimer considered filming the Richard Yates novel soon after its publication but opted to make The Manchurian Candidate instead. In 1967, producer Albert Ruddy bought the property for $15,500. Five years later, while a writer-in-residence at Wichita State University, Yates offered to adapt his work for the screen. Ruddy had other projects lined up at the time and demurred, eventually selling the rights to actor Patrick O'Neal. Yates read O'Neal's treatment of his novel and found it "godawful," but O'Neal refused the writer's repeated offers to buy back the rights. Yates died in 1992, O'Neal died two years later,[1] and the project remained in limbo until 2001 when Todd Field expressed interest in adapting it for the screen. However, when told by the O'Neal estate he would be required to shoot O'Neal's script as written, Field stepped away from the material and opted to make Little Children instead[2]. David Thompson eventually purchased the rights for BBC Films.[3] In March 2007, BBC Films established a partnership with DreamWorks, and the rights to the film's worldwide distribution were assigned to Paramount Pictures, owner of DreamWorks. On February 14, 2008, The Hollywood Reporter reported Paramount announced that Paramount Vantage was "taking over distribution duties on Revolutionary Road".[4]
The film was shot on location in Beacon Falls, Bethel, Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, New Canaan, Norwalk, Redding, Shelton, Southport, Stamford, Thomaston and Trumbull (all in Connecticut), Westchester County, and various sites in New York City, including Grand Central Terminal, Tribeca and Lower Manhattan.
The film marks the first time DiCaprio, Winslet and Bates worked together since the 1997 blockbuster Titanic and the first time Winslet worked with husband Sam Mendes.
The film, which is set in 1955, contains a set design anachronism that can be seen when DiCaprio's character goes to visit his wife in her dressing room after the play. As DiCaprio enters the room a yellow and black Fallout Shelter Sign is visible behind his head. The National Fallout Shelter program was a Kennedy Administration initiative and the sign first appeared in public in 1961.
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprio ..... Frank Wheeler
- Kate Winslet ..... April Wheeler
- Kathy Bates ..... Helen Givings
- Kathryn Hahn ..... Milly Campbell
- David Harbour ..... Shep Campbell
- Michael Shannon ..... John Givings
- Richard Easton ..... Howard Givings
- Zoe Kazan ..... Maureen Grube
- Jay O. Sanders ..... Bart Pollock
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