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Revolutionary Road

By Justin Haythe and Richard Yates (Novel) - Film

FilmScreen5 minutes into the movie

Roles

  • Frank Wheeler
  • April Wheeler

About this piece

Frank Wheeler confronts his wife April about her pointless dream to become an actress

Summary

Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) are a young couple with two kids living in Connecticut in the 50s. Frank has a dull office job that he hates and April wants to become an actress but she is abandoning her dream. Trying to find a way out of their frustrations, they decide to leave everything behind and move to Paris. After Frank gets offered a promotion and April gets pregnant, their decision to leave becomes harder and harder... This scene takes place at the beginning to the film. April has just performed in a play that turned out to be a disaster. She is frustrated and Frank tries to calm her. When April gets angry, the argument escalates into a raging argument about April's childish dream of becoming an actress...

Tone

Having an argumentScolding somebody

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