What if Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet had both made it off the Titanic alive, hocked that diamond and set up home together? Might they have turned out like the embittered Connecticut suburbanites they play in their latest collaboration? That’s the enticing proposition suggested by this adaptation of Richard Yates’ 1961 novel, which marks not just Kate and Leonardo’s first flick together since James Cameron’s Oscar-grabbing blockbuster but also her first with helmer hubby Sam Mendes. Finally time for Kate to break that five-noms Oscar duck?

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