Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite to light up the screen in the dim drama “Revolutionary Road,” released on DVD June 2. Set in a suburb in Connecticut in the 1950’s, the film is a depiction of a married couple desperate to break free from the typical suburban mold and prove that they are not ordinary.

Decked out in silk blouses and flowery aprons, April Wheeler (Winslet) seems like the typical 1950’s housewife. She tidies up their two-story white house by day and serves savory dinners to her husband, Frank Wheeler (DiCaprio) and two children by night. Frank kisses her goodbye every morning to work at Knox, the same company his father worked for 20 years. On the outside, Frank and April appear to be the perfect couple, but behind closed doors their marriage and sanity is holding on by a thread.

The first scene of the movie shows how the two met while living in the city. She was a struggling actress and he was jumping from one minimum wage job to another. The film then quickly jumps to years down the road to the couple now married with children, living in a quiet suburb. The couple was slowly falling apart as April was bored to tears and Frank began sleeping with a young new copy girl (Zoe Kazan) at his company.

The middle of the film gave a temporary beacon of hope for their marriage when April proposes for the couple to pick up and move to Paris and Frank agrees. This short-lived happiness comes crashing down after April learns she’s pregnant and Frank is offered a promotion, both of which causing Frank to have a change of heart about moving to Europe.

Richard Easton and Kathy Bates costar as neighbors to the Wheelers, who also fit the mold as a typical suburban couple. Their formally committed son, John (Michael Shannon) is the only person that can see through April’s fake smile as she serves hors d’oeuvres in her pearls. The unexpected pregnancy and Paris disappointment begin to eat away at April, as she herself begins to lose her sanity.

Even though the overall mood of the movie is bleak and ominous, the shining element of the film was Winslet’s performance. She brilliantly captures the frustration of April, and convincingly shows how suburbia and boredom slowly makes her character insane. She especially shines in the final scenes of the film, as she goes through the motions like a robot until finally escaping her prison cell in a dark and unconventional way. Despite Winslet’s shining performance, the ending of “Revolutionary Road” will leave you unfulfilled and slightly disappointed.