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Overview
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Release Date:
23 January 2009 (USA)
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Plot:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars.
Another 6 wins
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20 nominations
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Frighteningly real
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Leonardo DiCaprio | ... | Frank Wheeler |
 | Kate Winslet | ... | April Wheeler |
 | Michael Shannon | ... | John Givings |
 | Ryan Simpkins | ... | Jennifer Wheeler |
 | Ty Simpkins | ... | Michael Wheeler |
 | Kathy Bates | ... | Mrs. Helen Givings |
 | Richard Easton | ... | Mr. Howard Givings |
| Sam Rosen | ... | Party Guest #7 |
 | Maria Rusolo | ... | Party Dancer #1 |
 | Gena Oppenheim | ... | Party Dancer #2 |
| Kathryn Dunn | ... | Party Dancer #3 |
 | Joe Komara | ... | Party Dancer #4 |
| Allison Twyford | ... | Party Dancer #5 |
| David Harbour | ... | Shep Campbell |
| John Ottavino | ... | Other Actor in the Play #1 |
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Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.
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119 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:R (certificate #44282) |
UK:15 |
Netherlands:12 |
South Africa:13LS |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
Ireland:16 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Czech Republic:15 |
Finland:K-11 |
Portugal:M/16 (Qualidade) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) |
Norway:11 |
Germany:12 (f) |
South Korea:18 |
Brazil:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Sweden:7 |
Spain:13 |
Argentina:13 |
Peru:14 |
Taiwan:PG-12 |
Singapore:M18 |
Philippines:R-13 (MTRCB) |
Australia:M |
Mexico:B15
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Todd Field had planned to follow up In the Bedroom (2001) with this film, but he decided to make Little Children (2006) (also starring Kate Winslet and Ty Simpkins) instead.
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Anachronisms: The hallway of the school where April's play was performed, and clinic waiting room, have suspended ceilings that did not exist in 1955.
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Quotes:
John Givings:
I'm glad I'm not gonna be that kid.
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Movie Connections:
Features "Howdy Doody" (1954)
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Soundtrack:
Happy Birthday
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Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were the incentive of my going to see this film, and I could not be more convinced of their talent than I am after the two-hour brilliance.
This film is reality in its purest, yet magnificently artistic form – the anger that is portrayed repetitively and in various occasions reminded me of the wrath I myself occasionally experience, from the overture of an argument to its climax; the screaming, the furious need to verbally and physically harm, punch, kick, no matter how much affection is felt towards the recipient. Even during the scenes that are meant to be tranquil, there is anxiety and tension hidden in their smiles, a sort of counterfeit politeness that should never be present in a happy relationship.
It is all a depiction of two genuine lives that have the potential of existing in complete harmony, yet cannot because of the stereotypical environment and situation they find themselves in. They both crave change, an alteration in their monotonous state of being, but because of the lengthy period of time that they have spent in such a circumstance, their mentality is differently modified. April (Kate Winslet) finds unreserved determination to leave to Paris and although her character seems at times erratic, we gradually come to understand that she is in fact the stronger personality of the two; she truly finds change favorable, whereas Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) seems to find the idea of change more flattering than change itself.
Each choice a person makes can change a life, and that life is not always theirs. This film shows us just how wrong something right can be, as well as how right something wrong can be.