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.
Acting
DiCaprio and Winslet weaponize chemistry into pure devastation.
Direction
Mendes frames hope like a coffin closing.
Writing
Every polite conversation hides a scream.
Director
Sam Mendes
Leonardo DiCaprio
Frank Wheeler
Kate Winslet
April Wheeler
Kathy Bates
Mrs. Helen Givings
Michael Shannon
John Givings
Kathryn Hahn
Milly Campbell
David Harbour
Shep Campbell
Dylan Baker
Jack Ordway
Richard Easton
Mr. Givings
Zoe Kazan
Maureen Grube
Jay O. Sanders
Bart Pollock
Max Baker
Vince Lathrop
Max Casella
Ed Small
Christopher Fitzgerald
Party Guest
Jonathan Roumie
Party Guest
Neal Bledsoe
Party Guest
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first DiCaprio-Winslet reunion since Titanic — deliberately cast to weaponize audience nostalgia for doomed romance.
Richard Yates's novel was considered unfilmable for decades; the 'hopeful' ending of the 1960s stage adaptation so enraged him that he refused future adaptation rights until his death.
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