Revolutionary Road

What if Jack & Rose married and settled into the conventional American grind?

The Wheelers are a couple with two kids living in the suburbs of Connecticut in the 50s. Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) marches off to the big city five times a week, ten hours a day, to a job he hates whereas April (Kate Winslet) takes care of things on the home front, including their hardly-seen children. April's dream of being an actress has failed and she vents her frustrations on Frank. Emasculated, he has a meaningless affair to prove his manhood to himself. Meanwhile April suggests a wild idea for them to move to Paris because Frank's war tales describe it as a place of exhilaration and April desperately wants him to regain that aura of vitality he had ...

Can you change your life for love? Whats the border between craziness and frustration? Are we really living our lives? This fantastic movie won 20 awards and 73 nominations. Its an incredible story and lets discover why.

The movie is set in Connecticut during the mid-1950 and inspired by the book Revolutionary Road written by Richard Yates. Its a story of love, marriages, families and abortion, ambitions and frustrations, of dreamers and conformists. Its the daily tale of all of us, on the road of our lives. Looking for an often unachievable and unknown happiness.

You will ask yourself whats the purpose of this life? It is just about having a good job, a great house, a wife, children? Or there is something more? Like the love for you...

This is a fairly unremarkable family drama that sees "April" (Kate Winslet) staying at home with their two children whilst husband "Frank" (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes to work in his office each day - and has the occasional fling with his secretary. "April" is probably best described as a frustrated actress and her last stage performance went down a bit like a lead balloon which caused the latest in this couple's fiery rows. She decides that they need a profound change, and so suggests that they decamp to Paris. She will get a job and he can spend his time, reading, writing - generally lolling about looking after the kids. They announce this plan to the world, but no sooner than they they do, their lives become even more unsettled and a maelstr...