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American Pastoral (2016)
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Crime , Drama
Ewan McGregor , Jennifer Connelly , Dakota Fanning , Peter Riegert , Rupert Evans , Uzo Aduba , Molly Parker , Valorie Curry , Hannah Nordberg ,
Julia Silverman , Mark Hildreth , Samantha Mathis , David Strathairn , Ocean James , David Whalen
Ewan McGregor
108
2016
Seymour Levov| going by the nickname of 'Swede' in the Jewish community he was born into| was even more of an all-American than Douglas Fairbanks himself. He had
just everything an American idol can dream of: not only was the tall muscular young man his high school star athlete but he married a beauty queen named Dawn into
the bargain. And as if all this were not enough| Swede later became the successful manager of the glove factory his father had founded| which allowed him to live
with his wife in a beautiful house in the New Jersey countryside. Well-mannered| always bright| smiling and positive| conservative but with a liberal edge| what bad
could ever happen to him ? And yet... And yet this was reckoning without fate and its obnoxious irony| Swede and Dawn's nemesis manifesting itself in the person of
Merry| their beloved daughter who in her teens unexpectedly turned into a violent activist...
American Pastoral finds debuting director Ewan McGregor's reach exceeding its grasp with a well-intentioned Philip Roth adaptation that retains the form, but little of the function, of its source material.