Kate, Leonardo and Sam makes three

12 April 2012
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It's a movie menage a trois made in heaven. Sam Mendes, director of American Beauty, has begun working with his wife Kate Winslet on the film Revolutionary Road, which is being shot in New York.

The project also sees an on-screen reunion between Winslet with Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Titanic stars Winslet and DiCaprio reunite on set

Titanic stars Winslet and DiCaprio reunite on set

Family affair: husband and wife duo Winslet and Mendes have teamed up for the film

Family affair: husband and wife duo Winslet and Mendes have teamed up for the film

This is the first time since the pair broke hearts and box-office records in the 1997 epic Titanic, about the doomed steamship.

But don't expect a repeat of that weepy romance.

Written in 1961 by Richard Yates, the novel Revolutionary Road describes how a young couple get married for the wrong reasons and find themselves torn between their own desires and pressures to conform in 1950s America.

It's been described as a no-holds barred study of marital life. So I think that rules out a mushy Celine Dion soundtrack then.

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