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Movie Name: Revolutionary Road
Casting By: Leonardo DiCaprio - Frank Wheeler
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Released: December 19, 2008
Genre: Adaptation
Runtime:
Rating: R
Director(s): Sam Mendes
Producer(s): Bobby Cohen, Sam Mendes, Scott Rudin
Writer(s): Justin Haythe, Richard Yates
Distribution: Paramount Vantage
U.S. Box Office:
Country: USA, UK
Language: English
  Revolutionary Road
Movie Review
 

Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 26, 2008.

Set in 1955, the plot focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates. April is an aspiring actress who yearns to move to Paris, while Frank copes with toiling away at a corporate job he despises by drinking too heavily and engaging in an affair with a co-worker. The couple's marriage slowly dissolves into an endless cycle of bitter arguments and jealous recriminations.

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 , and the project remained in limbo until David Thompson eventually purchased the rights for BBC Films. 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".

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 Station, Tribeca, and Lower Manhattan.

Jesse McCartney announced while on tour, that his younger brother, Timmy McCartney, would star in Revolutionary Road, but it is unknown what his role is.

This film will mark the first time DiCaprio, Winslet, and Bates have worked together on a film since the 1997 blockbuster, Titanic. This will also be the first time DiCaprio plays a father in one of his films.

 
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