CUE the Celine Dion: Kate and Leo are back, and we’re feeling surprisingly sentimental. It’s been too long since Winslet and DiCaprio were seen blue-facedly declaring their love as the Titanic sank in the background. This Friday, the duo is back in “Revolutionary Road,” featuring a sinking ship of a different sort: the boring suburban marriage. Here’s how the new, landlocked pairing stands up to the watery 1997 epic.

Titanic

Setting: Jack and Rose

He wins her heart by: Stopping her from throwing herself overboard

Travel plans: Reinvent themselves in America

His creative talent: Painting nude portraits of her

They spend their spare time: Dancing and drinking in steerage, leaning off prow of ship

Kathy Bates appears as: The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Relationship derailed by: Iceberg

“Revolutionary road”

Setting: Connecticut suburb, 1955

They play: Frank and April

He wins her heart by: Spouting a line about how people are “really alive” in Europe

Travel plans: Reinvent themselves in France

His creative talent: Writing brochures for Knox Business Machines

They spend their spare time: Having screaming matches in their well-appointed living room

Kathy Bates appears as: Nosy real-estate lady Mrs. Givings

Relationship derailed by: Unplanned pregnancy

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