Revolutionary Road

…of the Richard Yates novel Revolutionary Road (2008) starring actress Kate Winslet, whom he had married in 2003 (divorced 2010). The drama centres on a free-spirited married couple, played by Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, as they navigate the increasingly homogeneous social milieu of 1950s American suburbia.

…took a supporting role in Revolutionary Road, portraying a real estate agent in 1950s suburbia. She subsequently appeared in the sports drama The Blind Side (2009); the romantic comedies Valentine’s Day (2010) and A Little Bit of Heaven (2011); Woody Allen’s fantasy Midnight in Paris, in which she portrayed the…

…again paired with Winslet in Revolutionary Road (2008), an adaptation of the novel by Richard Yates that depicts a young couple struggling to reconcile their unconventional aspirations with a stifling existence in 1950s suburbia. For his next film, Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010), DiCaprio portrayed a tormented U.S. marshal sent to…

…DiCaprio in the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and also shared screen time with Denzel Washington in the thriller The Equalizer (2014).

…in a big way in Revolutionary Road, directed by Sam Mendes. Shannon stole the scenes as John Givings, a troubled math genius whose outspoken anti-authoritarian streak brings welcome disruption to the lives of an unhappy suburban couple (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). He was nominated for an Academy Award for…

…adaptation of Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road again paired Winslet and DiCaprio, this time as an unconventional couple attempting to buck the restrictive mores of 1950s suburbia. The film was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, whom she had married in 2003 (they divorced in 2010). In The Reader (2008),…