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| Character | Frank Wheeler?April Wheeler??? | |
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| Scene type / Who are | Mother/Son, I wanted to tell you... I love you, Scheming, Persuading somebody, Doing business/making a deal, Killing somebody, Apologizing, Master/Servant, Beating somebody, Scolding somebody, Saying goodbye, Leaving/dumping somebody, Divorced/Ex-lovers, Will you marrry me?, Commiserating, Kissing, Firing Somebody, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 2008 | |
| Period | Any | |
| Genre | Romance, Drama | |
| Props | Two glasses of wine | |
| Description | Let's go to Paris baby.... | |
| Location | 27 minutes into the movie | |
Summary
Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) are a young couple with two kids living in Connecticut in the 50s. Frank has a dull office job that he hates and April wants to become an actress but she is abandoning her dream. Trying to find a way out of their frustrations, they decide to leave everything behind and move to Paris. After Frank gets offered a promotion and April gets pregnant, their decision to leave becomes harder and harder...
In this scene April tells Frank about her idea of leaving everything behind and move to Paris. She's get a secretarial position in a government agency and he won't have to work and have time to find out what he really wants to do with his life. Frank is confused at first but April finally persuades him...
In this scene April tells Frank about her idea of leaving everything behind and move to Paris. She's get a secretarial position in a government agency and he won't have to work and have time to find out what he really wants to do with his life. Frank is confused at first but April finally persuades him...
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| INT. BEDROOM-NIGHT APRIL: "Frank. I have had the most wonderful idea-I have been thinking about it all day." FRANK: "Baby, what's all this about?" APRIL: "Do 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." FRANK: " "What we could get from the house". Sweetheart, what are you talking about? Where are we going to live?" APRIL: "Paris." FRANK: "What?" APRIL: "You always said it was the only place you'd ever been that you wanted to go back to, the only place that was worth living. So why don't we go there?" FRANK: "You're serious?" APRIL: "Yes. What's stopping us?" ....CONTINUED.... |
