Revolutionary Road is a movie starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio set in the 1950's Americana. The quietness of the time period is shown in the smooth lines of the neutral tones of the furniture and the lighting of cigarettes reminescent of the nonexistent smoking laws of that time.

The movie begins with April Wheeler and Frank Wheeler meeting at a night spot  (Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are single at the time) They meet and she shares her dreams of becoming a famous actress and he makes her laugh. Then the movie fast forwards to Frank Wheeler boarding a train to work with hoards of men of the time period wearing flannel gray suit, white shirts with ties and hats of the same dull gray as the suits. They all were headed to work at the Knox Company as was Frank Wheeler.

The movie viewer then sees April Wheeler dressed complete in a time period apron taking two trash cans out to the end of the street in front of a huge two story white suburban house with red shutters. The Wheelers think that they are a special couple on Revolutionary Road with their great dreams and the peculiar real estate agent says the the house were as special as they were. The two story house on Revolutionary Road the sat statutesque on a hill apart from the other houses.

Frank Wheeler is not happy at his job though he picked up a pretty office girl and slept with her to make his work days more tolerable. He finds himself in the same job that his father worked for twenty years. A job that he loathes. Frank had vowed not to follow in his father's footsteps to the Knox Company.

April and Frank now with two kids, a boy and a girl decide with April prompting to move to Paris. Her idea was to just take off for Paris and she could work as a government secretary to support Frank and the two kids. Frank's job would be to care for the kids and decide what he really wanted to do with his life. They both discussed their plan with the peculiar real estate agent, her husband, and the real estate agent's son who although mentally ill had a Phd.

April and Frank also discussed the move to Paris with the husband and wife neighbors across the street on Revolutionary Road. Frank told the people he worked with about the plan to move to Paris and they asked him why could he stay and do well where he was at. April and Frank explained to the real estate agent's mentally ill though very intelligent son that they felt hopeless and empty on Revolutionary Road unless they moved to Paris. The neighbor's husband had already been to Paris and told April that the place was not all that great. The neighbors thought that it was immature thinking on April's part to think of uprooting the family to move to Paris.

Things happened, and Frank was up for a promotion at work at the Knox Company. Frank got quite liberal with his business letters at work because he thought he was going to Paris. The bosses however, liked his letters and decided to promote him within the company. April became pregnant and depressed that her hopes of moving to Paris was dashed because of the pregnacy and Frank's promotion at work. April argued to Frank that whenever she thought of doing something, she would become pregnant. April seemed more saddened than Frank about not being able to go to Paris and started feeling even more trapped in the house on Revolutionary Road.

Kate went to a private place and bought a rubber gadget that looked like an old fashioned water bottle with long tubes telling Frank that she wanted to rid herself of the pregnancy that was spoiling her move to Paris.Frank was against the procedure but gave in as long as it was done before twelve weeks after which time would be a dangerous for April.

April and Frank partied with the neighbors whose husband had been seen admiring April. They all were celebrating that April and Frank were not moving to Paris afterall because of the pregnancy. During the party at the local hangout, Kate seemed to have lost it. Once an opportune moment occurred when Frank had to take the neighbor's wife home because she got sick at the night spot, Kate willingly had sex with the neighbor's husband in his car. During that time in the car, the neighbor's husband confessed that he loved Kate but she shoosed him away.

Kate's frame of mind went downward from that time on and often had fights with Frank. She refused to sleep with Frank when the so call mental patient of the real estate agent at one of their dinners said that they did not go to Paris because hopeless was not to bad. Frank was infuriated when the real estate agent's son said that Frank needed to have babies to prove that he was a man.

Frank carried the argument to Kate who was also having problems raising her kids. One evening Kate walked away to the woods angrily after another argument and Frank followed her. She threatened to scream if he touched her and told Frank to leave her alone. That night Frank slept alone again while April spoked cigarettes and toward the evening came home to Revolutionary Road.

The following morning, April looked like and acted like a new person and surprisely was very friendly and cordial to Frank in a mysterious way. April made Frank a delicious breakfast of eggs, bacon, orange juice and coffee. She greeted Frank with a smile. Frank said that it was nice and quiet without the kids around. April had the kids to stay over the private friend's house who the movie goer never saw and who had provided her information about the rubber tubed contraceptive.

As if acting as the great actress that she always wanted to become, that particular morning April told Frank that she wanted to hear about his promotion. Frank had decided to take the promotion at the Knox Company afterall. He thought that the right thing to do was to keep his job with the new baby coming. April was past the twelve week-safe period and he thought that since she was past that point that she had decided to keep the baby. Frank drew a picture of a computer on a napkin at the breakfast table and told April that he had been promoted to sell the big computers.

April kissed Frank not lovingly but almost robot-like and then watched almost tearfully as he drove off to work for the last time. After the big argument the previous night, movie goers were thinking that April was going to poison Frank with maybe the eggs or the orange juice. Frank had confessed to April that he had slept with someone at work. At the time of Frank's confession, April said that she did not love him anymore and she was not remorseful about his infidelity.

After Frank left for work after eating his breakfast, April knowing the danger of using the bulky orange rubber inserted contraceptive, slowly walked upstairs to the bathroom. April laid a towel on the bathroom floor and slowly closed the door. Minutes later, she walked slowly down the stairs, the movie camera only showing her bare feet, one at a time as she stepped down each beige carpeted step.

She stood facing the window of her neighbor's house looking through the gigantic picture window of the house on Revolutionary Road. Blood dripped from between her legs with the movie camera showing a large blood spot where she must have laid on the bathroom floor on the bottom back of her dress. Upon seeing the drops of blood on the beige carpet, April called calmly for help from a local hospital. They came and took her there. Frank and the neighbor's husband who had sex with April in his car, discovered that she had done a horrible thing to herself. Upon finding the news that April was gone, Frank ran from the hospital trying to run from the whole sad occurrence on Revolutionary Road.

The movie ended with the peculiar real estate lady talking about the Wheelers like they were not so special after all. She said the new couple now living in the house on Revolutionary Road after Frank moved his family out were the perfect fit for the house. The husband of the peculiar real estate agent reached to his earing aid and decreased the volume so he could not hear her speak.

Frank was last seen alone still mourning with his two kids as a playground.

April took matters into her own hands and did not want another child to block her dreams of becoming an actress though she disguised the actress with that of a government secretary. However, this time her dream took her beyond reality and now April have left her family forever, hopeless and empty.