Category: 16
All Genres: Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2008
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 119
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Sam Mendes
Sound: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
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Writing by: Justin Haythe – (screenplay)
Richard Yates – (novel)

Produced by: Gina Amoroso – co-producer
Bobby Cohen – producer
Henry Fernaine – executive producer
Karen Gehres – producer: EPK
Pippa Harris – co-executive producer
John Hart – producer
Peter Kalmbach – co-executive producer
Sam Mendes – producer
Marion Rosenberg – executive producer
Scott Rudin – producer
David M. Thompson – executive producer
Nina Wolarsky – co-executive producer

Cast: Kathy Bates – Mrs. Helen Givings
John Behlmann – Mr. Brace
David Campbell – Vito's Bartender
Max Casella – Ed Small
Kristen Connolly – Mrs. Brace
Evan Covey – Campbell Son 2
Sean Cullen – Frank's father
Mary DeBellis – Beachgoer
Leonardo DiCaprio – Frank Wheeler
Richard Easton – Howard Givings
Jason Etter – Vito's Dancer #3

Music: Thomas Newman
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Plot Outline: A story about love lost and love found. Set against a rugged Australian backdrop, four characters deal with their own disillusionment of loss and regret.
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.

Movie Quotes: Steven 'Flash' Gordon:”>to Baylin] I'm not letting you out of my sight. I don't want another incident like with Mr. Mailman.
Baylin: Nonmilitary personel should not wear uniforms.


Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Porter sits on the sidewalk to wait for Rosie, the blue backpack is about a foot behind him. Although Porter later says “Backpack, backpack,” and Rosie replies, “Got it,” when Rosie first comes around the car, the backpack is nowhere to be seen.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• This is the first film collaboration between Kate Winslet and husband Sam Mendes
• 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.
• Child actors Ryan Simpkins and Ty Simpkins, who play Frank and April's children, are real-life siblings.