i'm studying to be an actress. you?
no, i mean really.
i don't mean how you make money. i mean what are you interested in?
hi. you about ready to leave? i've just got to get this makeup off, then we can go.
i guess not. i'll be ready in a minute.
will you do me a favor? milly and shep wanted us to go out with them afterwards. will you say we can't? say it's because of the baby sitter or something?
oh. then would you mind going out again and saying you were mistaken? that should be simple enough.
well i'll tell them myself.
thank you.
all right.
could we sort of stop talking about it now?
i said yes. all right, frank. could you just stop talking now, before you drive me crazy, please?
what are you doing? why are we stopping?
no, frank, please don't.
please don't touch me.
why can't you. just.  leave me alone!
no. just let me stand here a second.
haven't i made it clear i don't particularly want to talk about it?
how kind of you. how terribly, terribly kind of you.
you're always so wonderfully definite, aren't you, on the subject of what you do and don't deserve?
christ, i wish you'd stayed home tonight!
and you know what you are? you're disgusting.
just because you've got me safely in this little trap, you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want!
yes, me. me! me! me! oh, you poor, pathetic little boy  look at you! look at you, and tell me how by any stretch of the imagination you can call yourself a man!
could we please go home now?
oh, yes.
hi helen.
well, thank you.  you want some coffee?
is there something i can do for you, helen?
i'm sorry to hear that.
i'm so sorry.
yes. of course.
we'd love to helen.
we'd love to.
i've never really been anywhere.
frank wheeler?
i think you're the most interesting person i've ever met.
i mean it.
frank.
first of all, i missed you all day and i want to say i'm sorry. i'm sorry for the way i've been since that stupid play. i'm sorry for everything and.  and i love you.  now wait here till i call you. okay?
alright frank! you can come in now!
frank. i have had the most wonderful idea. i've been thinking about it all day.
you know how much money we have saved?
enough to live on for six months without you earning another dime. and with the money we could get from the house and the car, longer than that.
paris.
you always said it was the only place you'd ever been that was worth living. so why don't we go there?
yes. what's stopping us?
you won't be getting any kind of job, because i will.
don't laugh -- listen a minute! have you any idea what they pay for secretarial positions in the government agencies in europe? embassies and those things.
i'm serious about this frank. do you think i'm kidding or something?
don't you see that's the whole idea? you'll be doing what you should've been allowed to do seven years ago. you'll have time, frank. you'll have time to find out what it is that you actually want to do, and when you figure it out you'll have the time and the freedom to start doing it.
well, i happen to think this is unrealistic. i think it's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working like a dog year after year at a job he can't stand, coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things.
you want to know the worst part? our whole existence here is based on this great premise that we're somehow very special and superior to the whole thing, and you know what i've realized? we're not! we're just like everyone else. look at us! we've bought into the same ridiculous delusion. this idea that you have to resign from life and settle down the moment you have children. and we've been punishing each other for it.
when i first met you, there was nothing in the world you couldn't do or be.
you were not! how can you even say that?
but frank, listen to me: it's what you are that's being stifled here. it's what you are that's being denied and denied and denied in this kind of life.
don't you know?
you're the most valuable and wonderful thing in the world.  you're a man.
this is our chance, frank. this is our one chance.
okay?
thank you.
all the way to.  here.
well, sweetheart. it's a big world out there and we thought maybe we should go see a little bit of it.
a long way. we have to take a boat ride over the sea to get there.
i know. and neither will i. but remember when you started school? and now look how many friends you have.
and frog's legs!
oh those look great. i'm starving!
we're going to europe. to paris.  to live.
oh.  about a week ago.  its hard to remember. we just suddenly decided to go, that's all.
we had to get used to the idea.
frank won't be doing any kind of a job, because i will.
you wouldn't believe what they pay for secretarial work in government agencies over there. nato and e.c.a. and those places.
the truth is we just need something different.
we're not getting any younger and we don't want life to just pass us by.
i felt that way once too.
the first time you made love to me.
no
wish i saw his face when you told him you were leaving.
i think this is them.
you're not late.
you didn't have to do that.
and you must be john?
they're at a birthday party. sorry they couldn't be here.
it's just some sandwiches.
john, would you like a sandwich?
we're moving to paris.
i hear you're a mathematician.
all gone?
yes. yes i do.
how awful.
no. because the shocks must be awful and.  well, because it's awful not to be able to do what it is you want to do. i think mathematics are dull.
a different way of life.
you know, he's the first person who seemed to know what we were talking about.
if being crazy means living life as if it matters then i don't care if we are completely insane. do you?
i love you so much.
i thought maybe we'd give the doll house to madeline.
i already explained to you, the big things are going to be hard to pack.
no! just the big things. look. wouldn't you rather go outside and play with michael.
you've been inside all day.
well, i don't feel like explaining everything fifteen times to somebody who's too bored and silly to listen!
nothing.
nothing happened today that i haven't known about for days and days.
oh god, frank, please don't look so dense. do you mean you haven't guessed or anything?
i'm pregnant, that's all.
oh, frank, i meant to wait until dinner to tell you, but i just - well, i've been pretty sure all week and today i went to the doctor and now i can't even pretend it's not true.
ten weeks.
i thought.  oh, i don't know what i thought.
i'm sorry, frank. i'm so sorry.
we don't have to let this stop us. there are things we can do. remember that girl at school i told you about? as long as you do it before 12 weeks, it's fine.
we've got to be together in this, frank. otherwise nothing's going to make any sense.
i love you frank.
i thought you turned the job down?
so you've made up your mind?
and supposing you're right. you make all this money and we have this interesting life here. won't you still be wasting your life toiling away at a job you find ridiculous? just like your father.
your business?
you don't want to go, do you?
you don't! because you've never tried at anything. and if you don't try at anything you can't fail.
you don't have to!
it takes backbone to lead the life you want, frank.
where are you going?
and what do you think you're going to do? you're going to stop me?
go ahead and try!
you'll what? you'll leave me? is that a threat, or a promise?
you know you really are being melodramatic about the whole thing. as long as it's done in the first twelve weeks, it's perfectly safe.
of course you do! it would be for you, frank, don't you see? so you can have time. like we talked about.
then it's for me.  tell me we can have the baby in paris, frank. but don't make me stay here. please.
why not? i don't need everything we have here. i don't care where we live! i mean who made these rules, anyway? the only reason we moved out here was because i got pregnant. then we had another child to prove the first one wasn't a mistake. i mean how long does it go on?
frank. do you actually want another child? well, do you?
come on, tell me. tell me the truth, frank. remember that? we used to live by it. you know what's so good about the truth? everyone knows what it is, however long they've lived without it. no one forgets the truth, frank, they just get better at lying. so tell me: do you really want another child?
but i've had two children. doesn't that count in my favor?
i love my children.
what the hell is that supposed to mean?
no that's not true. of course i didn't.
stop. please just stop, frank.
and the new job's going to pay for that too?
okay. i guess there isn't much more to say, then, is there?
so i guess paris was a pretty childish idea, huh?
i hope so frank. i really hope so.
i don't really feel like it.
look - why don't you take milly home, then go home yourself and that would take care of both sitters. then shep can take me home later.
sure.
it didn't have to be paris.
i wanted in. i just wanted us to live again.
for years i thought we shared a secret. that we would be wonderful in the world. i didn't exactly know how, but just the possibility. kept me hoping.
how pathetic is that? to put all your hopes in a promise that was never made? see, frank knows. he knows what he wants. he's found his place. he's just fine. married, two kids. it should be enough. it is for him. he's right; we were never special or destined or anything at all.
i saw a different life. i can't stop seeing it. can't leave, can't stay. no damn use to anyone.
come on, let's do it.
no. please. here. now. in the back seat.
don't say that.
please, just be quiet for a minute, then you can take me home.
yes; it's lovely.
that's right.
you know i'm not sleeping with you and you want to know why?
well, i'm sorry frank, but i don't really feel like talking about it.
would it be all right if we didn't talk about anything? can't we just take each day as it comes, and do the best we can, and not feel we have to talk about everything all the time?
why did you?
no. i don't mean why did you have the girl; i mean why did you tell me about it?
i mean what's the point? is it supposed to make me jealous, or something? is it supposed to make me fall in love with you, or back into bed with you, or what? i mean what am i supposed to say?
i don't feel anything.
no; i guess that's right; i don't.
fuck who you like.
oh, i know you do. and i suppose i would if i loved you. but you see i don't think i do anymore. and i only just figured that out. and that's why i'd just as soon not do any talking right now.
you think so?!
i'm sorry dinner's late. can i get anyone a refill?
right.
apparently i don't have to. you're saying it for me.
why am i wrong?
what is it, frank?
the in -- the in; the inabil; the inability to --
oh. -- oh, frank, you really are a wonderful talker! if black could be made into white by talking, you'd be the man for the job. so now i'm crazy because i don't love you -- right? is that the point?
but i don't. in fact i loathe the sight of you. you're just a boy who made me laugh at a party once and if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything i think i'll scream.
what're you going to do now? are you going to hit me? to show how much you love me?
don't come any closer.
don't come any closer. can't i even get away from you in the fucking woods?
are you still talking? isn't there any way to stop your talking? i need to think. can't you see that?
do you want me to scream again, frank? because i will, if you say another word! i mean it!
good morning.
would you like scrambled eggs or fried?
fine. i'll have scrambled too.
yes. i thought you'd probably want a good breakfast today. i mean it's kind of an important day for you, isn't it? isn't this the day you have your conference with pollock?
i imagine it is a pretty big deal; for them, anyway. what exactly do you think you'll be doing? you never have told me much about it.
no, i don't believe you did.
oh, i see. at least i think i see; yes. it's really sort of -- interesting, isn't it?
you should value what you do frank. you're obviously good at it.
thank you.  i'm glad; i enjoyed it too.
no; of course i don't.
have a good day.
hello.  milly? everything all right? my voice sounds what?
well, no, i'm afraid i'm not feeling any better.  if it's not an inconvenience for you.  this evening would be great. what? oh, well- no, not if they're outdoors playing. don't call them in.
just give them - you know, give them each a kiss for me, and give them my love, and tell them - you know.  all right, milly. thanks.
i think i need an ambulance.  yes.  one one five revolutionary road.