Revolutionary Road

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• SPOILER: April self-aborts because in 1955 (the year most of this movie is set) abortion was illegal in Connecticut and the rest of the country, and would remain so in most states until the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case in 1973 (see also the trivia for Dirty Dancing). In Connecticut, however, not only was abortion illegal; it was also illegal (until the Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court case in 1965) to buy or use any form of contraception. One of Frank's work friends jokes that April's pregnancy was the result of a faulty prophylactic, but given the Wheeler home's Connecticut location, it would have been illegal for the Wheelers to have used any form of birth control. (However, in the book April comments that she felt her diaphragm was loose the night they conceived and that she had to go out the next day to buy a replacement.)
• Although this is not specified in the movie, in Richard Yates' source novel, the play that April acts in (apparently badly) is the 1935 The Petrified Forrest by Robert E. Sherwood. In this play, the main female character, Gabby, most likely the one whom April plays, dreams of leaving what she sees as a humdrum existence in the U.S. to move to France - just as April does.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): The house on Revolutionary Road has a modern security light outside.
• Shot in sequence.