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American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour "Swede" Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey. Levov's happy and conventional upper middle class life is ruined by the domestic social and political turmoil of the 1960s during the presidency of ...
Oct 21, 2016 · Based on Philip Roth's novel, the film follows a former sports star and his beauty queen wife whose perfect life is shattered by their daughter's activism in 1960s America. Ewan McGregor directs and stars in this adaptation, along with Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning and David Strathairn.
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American Pastoral is a 2016 American crime - drama film directed by Ewan McGregor (in his feature directorial debut) and with a screenplay by John Romano, based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Philip Roth. The film stars McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Rupert Evans, Uzo Aduba, Molly Parker and David Strathairn.
May 12, 1997 · 3.94. 80,543 ratings6,014 reviews. Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century's promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth's protagonist is Seymour 'Swede' Levov—a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man ...
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Oct 21, 2016 · A film based on the novel by Philip Roth, starring Ewan McGregor as a businessman whose daughter disappears after a violent act. Critics and audiences are divided on the film's quality and faithfulness to the source material.
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Oct 21, 2016 · A disappointing adaptation of Philip Roth's novel by Ewan McGregor, who also stars as a Jewish businessman whose life falls apart in the '60s. The film is weak in place, time, character and tone, and fails to capture the complexity and irony of the source material.
