Plot summary
Set in 1955, the novel 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. In the opening scene, April stars in an embarrassingly bad amateur dramatic production of The Petrified Forest:
She was working alone, and visibly weakening with every line. Before the end of the first act the audience could tell as well as the Players that she’d lost her grip, and soon they were all embarrassed for her. She had begun to alternate between false theatrical gestures and a white-knuckled immobility; she was carrying her shoulders high and square, and despite her heavy make-up you could see the warmth of humiliation rising in her face and neck.
After the performance Frank and April have a massive fight on the side of the highway.
Seeking to break out of their suburban rut, April convinces Frank they should move to Paris, where she will work and support him while he realizes his vague ambition to be something other than an office worker.The promise of France puts a band aid on their marital problems for the time being. Frank (from whose point of view most of the novel is told) though never outwardly voicing it to April, does not seem to be as fond of the France idea as she, doing the minimum to get by at work without developing any alternative self. April, in contrast, takes concrete steps to accomplish the move. When she conceives their third child, their plan to leave America crumbles, not least because Frank is flattered by praise from his supervisors at work and beginning to identify with his mundane job.
April, overwhelmed by the outcome of the situation and unable to deal with living on Revolutionary Road for an indefinite period, attempts to self-abort her child, and in doing so is rushed to hospital and dies from blood loss. Frank, scarred by the ordeal and feeling deep guilt over the outcome, is left a hollow shell of a man.
David Harbour as Shep Campbell,
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler,
Kathryn Hahn as Milly Campbell,
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler and
Ryan Simpkins as Jennifer Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
David Harbour as Shep Campbell and
Kathryn Hahn as Milly Campbell in Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet as April Wheeler and
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
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