Top billed cast

1. 

   Leonardo DiCaprio

   Frank Wheeler

2. 

   Kate Winslet

   April Wheeler

3. 

   Kathy Bates

   Mrs. Helen Givings

4. 

   Michael Shannon

   John Givings

5. 

   Kathryn Hahn

   Milly Campbell

6. 

   David Harbour

   Shep Campbell

7. 

   Dylan Baker

   Jack Ordway

8. 

   Richard Easton

   Mr. Givings

9. 

   Zoe Kazan

   Maureen Grube

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2019-11-21

***What if Jack & Rose married and settled into the conventional American grind?***

The Wheelers are a couple with two kids living in the suburbs of Connecticut in the ’50s. Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) marches off to the big city five times a week, ten hours a day, to a job he hates whereas April (Kate Winslet) takes care of things on the home front, including their hardly-seen children. April's dream of being an actress has failed and she vents her frustrations on Frank. Emasculated, he has a meaningless affair to prove his manhood to himself. Meanwhile April suggests a wild idea for them ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$35,000,000.00

Revenue
$76,000,000.00

Keywords

• adultery
• infidelity
• career
• jealousy
• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• marriage crisis
• american dream
• housewife
• connecticut
• suburbia
• free spirit
• unhappiness
• getaway
• aspiring actor
• 1950s
• unhappy marriage
• feeling trapped
• bleak
• psychological drama