BBC Films (Film Guide): Billy Elliot, Revolutionary Road, Eastern Promises, The Special Relationship, The Other Boleyn Girl, Edge of Darkness, Becoming Jane, My Summer of Love, Notes on a Scandal, Miss Potter, Millions, Match Point, Scoop, Code 46

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 67. Chapters: Billy Elliot, Revolutionary Road, Eastern Promises, The Special Relationship, The Other Boleyn Girl, Edge of Darkness, Becoming Jane, My Summer of Love, Notes on a Scandal, Miss Potter, Millions, Match Point, Scoop, Code 46, Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Fast Food Nation, Masked and Anonymous, Stage Beauty, Mr. Nobody, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Edge of Love, Best: His Mother's Son, Shadow of the Vampire, Lennon Naked, The Hour of the Pig, Death Defying Acts, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Confetti, Muzzy in Gondoland, Opal Dream, A Cock and Bull Story, Imagine Me & You, Tamara Drewe, Joe's Palace, Iris, Trauma, Starter for 10, Mrs Henderson Presents, Beyond the Pole, The Children, Sarafina!, Capturing Mary, Shooting Dogs, Four Last Songs, Bullet Boy, The State Within, Maybe Baby, Red Dust, The Statement, ID, Captives, Muzzy Comes Back, The Mother, Living in the Material World: George Harrison, Cold Comfort Farm, Woza Albert!, Love + Hate, The Evacuees, Wuthering Heights, The March. Excerpt: Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes, from screenplay by Justin Haythe, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film opened in limited release on December 26, 2008, and expanded wide on January 23, 2009. It was the first film in which DiCaprio and Winslet have co-starred since the 1997 film Titanic. It also included Titanic co-star Kathy Bates. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Supporting Actor (Michael Shannon). In the late 1940s, Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) meets April (Kate Winslet) at a party. He is a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier; she wants to be an actress. Frank later secures a sales position with the same company at which his father worked and he and April marry. In the 1950s the Wheelers move to 115 Revolutionary Road in suburban Connecticut when April becomes pregnant. Frank and April settle into the normality of suburban life while raising their children, Michael and Jennifer. The couple become close friends with their realtor Helen Givings (Kathy Bates) and her husband Howard, and neighbor Milly Campbell (Kathryn Hahn) and her husband Shep (David Harbour). To their friends the Wheelers are the perfect couple, but their relationship is troubled. April fails to make a career out of acting, while Frank hates the tedium of his work. April wants new scenery and a chance to support the family so that Frank can find his passion. April recalls how Frank talked about moving back to Paris. With a failed career, she believes that Paris is the solution to their problems. She suggests they relocate. Initially Frank laughs off the idea, but then begins considering it. The only person who confronts the Wheelers' decision is John (Michael Shannon), the troubled son of Helen. Frank admits to John that they indeed are running away from the hopelessness and emptiness of their repetitive lif