The quintessential "trapped in the 1950s" story

Rating: 9/10 (30 July 2009)

Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) meet cute as highly charged young adults in the big city. It's love at first sight, and the director and actors do a fine job of making Frank and April the perfect couple... not only to fall in love, but to have a chance to break out of the straight jacket(s) of the era. Game on. And most of us are cheered with hope for them: she's an aspiring actress and he utters the lines above, i.e. "I want to feel things, really feel them."
From the gitgo, you have a feeling they're different, that they may actually conquer the ubiquitous conformity of their Man in the Gray Flannel Suit times.
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