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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.
- $1.7 million
- Alexandre Desplat
- $10 million
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 as the Swede, with Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning and David Strathairn in supporting roles.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Ewan McGregor
- 2016-10-21
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 ...
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- Philip Roth
- May 12, 1997
- Houghton Mifflin
Oct 21, 2016 · A 2016 drama film based on Philip Roth's novel, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor as a businessman whose daughter becomes a radical activist. Critics and audiences give mixed reviews, praising the cast but criticizing the adaptation and the tone.
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- Ewan Mcgregor
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- Ewan Mcgregor
May 12, 1997 · American Pastoral. Philip Roth. 3.94. 80,142 ratings5,971 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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Oct 21, 2016 · A movie adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about an American Jew who faces a crisis in the '60s. The reviewer criticizes the screenplay, the director, and the casting for leading the film astray from the source material and the author's vision. The reviewer praises the performances of Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, and Dakota Fanning, but criticizes the music and the editing.
