Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates, Kate Winslet, John Behlmann, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Connolly

Director: Sam Mendes

Summary: More than a decade after sharing the screen in the record-breaking TITANIC, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite for this adaptation of Richard Yates's novel. This drama about a married couple in the 1950s is directed by Winslet's husband, Oscar winner Sam Mendes (AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROAD TO PERDITION).

Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama--based on Richard Yates's novel--is devoted to watching the collapse of their marriage and their selves in 1950s suburbia. Frank works at a job he hates in New York City, then commutes home to two children and a wife who feels none of them belong in their cookie-cutter town. One person who has faith in the couple is their estate agent, Helen (a fine Kathy Bates), who decides that they would be ideal role models for her mentally unstable son, John (BUG's Michael Shannon), and introduces them to him. However, Frank and April's marriage is not as perfect as it seems to the outside world, and the audience gets to witness the painful demise of their relationship.
With its commentary on conformity and finding identity, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD bears more than a passing resemblance in both theme and tone to the TV series MAD MEN and director Sam Mendes's previous film AMERICAN BEAUTY. The characters here may live in a polite age where men wear ties and hats and women clean the house in skirts and heels, but the dialogue often enters brutal territory. Less capable actors wouldn't have been able to capture the volatile chemistry between Frank and April, but DiCaprio and Winslet are as wonderful at uttering sweet nothings as they are at tearing each other apart with verbal barbs. Mendes, directing his wife, Winslet, for the first time, is a perfect match for the source novel's lack of sentimentality and its wry commentary on life in the 1950s that still resonates half a century later.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Commentary by director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Justin Haythe, Featurette: Lives of Quite Desperation: The Making of REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, Deleted Scenes with optional commentary
Year:	2008
Release Date:	June 29, 2009
Runtime:	115 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D S L 1566
Keywords:	Road, English, General, Drama, Revolutionary
Genre:	Drama