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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 · Philip Roth. 3.94. 80,190 ratings5,975 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.
Jun 23, 2016 · 2.29M subscribers. Subscribed. 1.2K. 334K views 7 years ago #AmericanPastoral. American Pastoral – In Select Theaters October 21 Starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Uzo...
Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “American Pastoral” is a staggering misfire on two discrete levels. As an adaptation of the 1997 novel by Philip Roth, it is lead-footed and inept. The screenplay, by John Romano, treats the narrative in a way that strongly suggests what I hope was a willful misreading of the book.
Summaries. 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. 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.
Dec 23, 2010 · See all formats and editions. Pulitzer Prize Winner, 1998. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Philip Roth’s masterpiece provides a piercing look into the promises of prosperity, civic order and domesticity in twentieth century America. ‘Swede’ Levov is living the American dream.
About American Pastoral. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a compulsively readable elegy for America’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and “one of Roth’s most powerful novels ever” (The New York Times).
