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- There are plenty of good scenes, but ultimately American Pastoral is less than the sum of its admirable parts. The story is meant to capture an American event through one man's misadventures, but the overall effect is of a painful melodrama.
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Oct 21, 2016 · A disappointing adaptation of Philip Roth's novel, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor as a Jewish businessman whose life falls apart in the '60s. The film is inept, weak and lacks any sense of place or time, according to critic Glenn Kenny.
Oct 21, 2016 · Seymour Swede Levov (Ewan McGregor) is a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn (Jennifer Connelly), a former beauty queen.
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May 12, 1997 · Philip Roth. 3.94. 80,464 ratings6,009 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.
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May 12, 1997 · AMERICAN PASTORAL. by Philip Roth ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 12, 1997. bookshelf. shop now. Roth's elegiac and affecting new novel, his 18th, displays a striking reversal of form—and content—from his most recent critical success, the Portnoyan Sabbath's Theater (1995).
American Pastoral Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. David Walsh World Socialist Web Site. American Pastoral is oddly flat and uninvolving for the most...
Oct 21, 2016 · American Pastoral: Directed by Ewan McGregor. With Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert. An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.
Sep 9, 2016 · Ewan McGregor stars alongside Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connelly in his feature directorial debut, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel about a man whose daughter grows up to become a terrorist.