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Revolutionary Road (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: When April explains that she can't pick up her children until that evening, the telephone handset has a modular phone jack, which was invented in the 1970s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The kitchen has a 3-prong electrical outlet. In the 1950s, American homes had 2-prong outlets.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The parabolic-lensed fluorescent fixtures seen near the beginning of the film were not in use in the 1950s.
  
  

• Anachronisms: A "Fallout Shelter" sign, with its distinctive upside-down triangle, is clearly visible backstage at the high school theater. According to the Civil Defense Museum, that sign was introduced in 1961.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Near the beginning, when Frank and April are standing alongside their parked car on the side of the road, a 1958 Buick passes by.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Frank goes to work, a 1956 Buick is parked on the street, in the foreground. The film is set in spring and early summer 1955, so the 1956 Buick wouldn't have been on sale yet.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When April walks out of the school after the play, the hallway ceiling is lined with smoke detectors that did not exist in 1955.
  
  
• Continuity: The morning after Frank and April decide to move to Paris, Frank leaves the house wearing a dark red tie. He wears the same tie in the office, when he tells the boys he's moving. Frank's tie is light yellow at lunch; in fact, everyone's tie is different. When he gets back to the office, his tie is red.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The house on Revolutionary Road has a modern security light outside.
  
  
• Anachronisms: April smokes Marlboro Lights, which were introduced in 1977.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The magazines in the Wheelers' living room, and Frank's Berlitz guidebook, are dog-eared and browned. They're probably from 1955, but they look like they're 50 or 60 years old.
  
  
• Continuity: After Frank leaves the hospital, he runs past the same 1955 Packard Constellation three times.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The wall phone in the kitchen is a Western Electric 554, which was introduced in 1956. Its switch hook was chrome, not plastic.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The hallway of the school where April's play was performed, and clinic waiting room, have suspended ceilings that did not exist in 1955.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When April shows Paris on the globe, a country that never existed is in the place of 1955 Yugoslavia.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one scene, a modern dryer vent is at the base of one house's foundation.
  
  
• Continuity: When Frank eats lunch with Milly, the olive and the amount of liquid in Milly's martini glass fluctuate throughout the scene.
  
  
• Anachronisms: At lunch, a co-worker tells Frank he will be "sorely missed in the old cubicle." Cubicles were introduced in the mid-1960s by Herman Miller Inc., a manufacturer of office furniture.
  
  
• Anachronisms: One scene at the Wheeler's house shows baseboard heating, which didn't exist in the 1950s.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the roadhouse scene the band's electric guitarist is playing a Gibson with dual coil pickups. They were not introduced until 1957.
  
  

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