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"Revolutionary Road" will be directed by Winslet's husband,
British filmmaker
Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for directing
1999's dysfunctional family drama "American Beauty." The DreamWorks project, based on the 1961 novel by Richard
Yates, revolves around a suburban couple caught between their
hopes for a life of art, culture and sophistication and the
everyday drudgery of boring jobs and domesticity. "Revolutionary Road" is considered a master work of modern
American literature, and was named one of the top 100 novels of
all time by Time magazine. In "Titanic," DiCaprio's working-class character fell in
love with a wealthy socialite played by Winslet aboard the
doomed ocean liner that sank in the icy North Atlantic in 1912. It became the highest-grossing movie of all time, raking in
more than $1.8 billion in global ticket sales, and made
DiCaprio and Winslet household names. Both DiCaprio and Winslet were nominated for
Oscars this
year, for thriller "Blood Diamond" and drama "Little Children,"
respectively. DiCaprio has earned three Oscar nominations and
Winslet five. DreamWorks is a unit of Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures. (Additional reporting by Bob Tourtellotte) |
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