American Pastoral (2016)

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Title: American Pastoral (2016)

Tagline: A radically ordinary story.

Genre: Drama

Director: Ewan McGregor

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert, Rupert Evans, Uzo Aduba, Molly Parker, Valorie Curry, Hannah Nordberg, Julia Silverman, Mark Hildreth, David Strathairn, Samantha Mathis, Emily Peachey, David Whalen, Ocean James, Georin Aquila, Peter Gannon, Corrie Danieley, Brian Knoebel, Troy Bogdan, Benjamin Donlow, Electa Rawls, Amy Lyn Elliott, Justin Clarke, Davion Traylor, Chukky Okobi, Siovhan Christensen

Release: 2016-10-20

Runtime: 108

Plot: Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

 
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Phillip Roth novel, AMERICAN PASTORAL follows a family whose seemingly idyllic existence is shattered by the social and political turmoil of the 1960s. Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut and stars as Seymour ?Swede? Levov, a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede?s life. When his beloved teenage daughter, Merry, disappears after being accused of committing a violent act, Swede dedicates himself to finding her and reuniting his family. What he discovers shakes him to the core, forcing him to look beneath the surface and confront the chaos that is shaping the world around him. AMERICAN PASTORAL also stars Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind?) as Dawn, Dakota Fanning as Merry, Emmy winner Uzo Aduba, and Academy Award nominee David Strathairn.

Not what I expected, looks pretty interesting story wise and reminds me a lot of Traffic, the Michael Douglas movie where he has to come up against the narcotics world due to his daughter.

Could be some interesting parallels to todays times, where moderate Muslim families have to deal with radicalized terrorist sons.
 

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