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American Pastoral
Directed by
Ewan McGregor
R
2016
1h 48m
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6.1
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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.
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Cast of American Pastoral
Ewan McGregor
Swede Levov / Director
Jennifer Connelly
Dawn Levov
Dakota Fanning
Merry Levov
David Strathairn
Nathan Zuckerman
Peter Riegert
Lou Levov
Rupert Evans
Jerry Levov
Uzo Aduba
Vicky
Molly Parker
Sheila Smith
Valorie Curry
Rita Cohen
Hannah Nordberg
Merry (12 years old)
Julia Silverman
Sylvia Levov
Mark Hildreth
Agent Dolan
Samantha Mathis
Penny Hamlin
Ocean James
Merry (8 years old)
David Whalen
Bill Orcutt
Corrie Danieley
Jessie Orcutt
David Case
Russ Hamlin
Max Ivcic
Hamlin's Son
Chuck Diamond
Rabbi
Brian Knoebel
Young Guardsman
American Pastoral Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
[The film] roughly sticks to the plot points of the novel but sheds its nuance.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
McGregor's directorial debut is a well-crafted drama but lacks the depth of Roth's masterful book.
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss
Is McGregor a bad director? Lord knows he's not the first to swing and whiff at Roth. I'll give him a mulligan here.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
I haven't read the book, but I'm guessing Roth brought more nuance and authority to its story of a New Jersey family in the 1960s and '70s than McGregor and screenwriter John Romano have with this cultural cartoon.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It might have fared better as a TV mini-series, where novelistic plot strands can be unpacked at length. McGregor is simply wrong for his role: He's too young, too modern, too smart.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
The actors emote deeply and energetically, but there's a disquieting sheen of artifice.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
The movie feels flat and small, lacking the novel's energy and expansive ambition.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
There was reason to expect more from American Pastoral, and just as much reason to figure it was doomed from the start.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's a grueling movie, and a thin one.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
In the end, it's too polite and considered a portrait of a rude and chaotic world, but as with most Philip Roth adaptions, there's plenty to talk about afterward.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
Even considered entirely separately from its source material, American Pastoral is hopelessly weak.
TheWrap
Sam Adams
The performances are so deliberate and overworked they might as well have the script tattooed on their faces.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
This story is best left on the page.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Even McGregor's palpable sincerity cannot obscure the film's smug misogyny.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Not a desecration but a severe diminution of a complex literary masterpiece.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
"American Pastoral" may tell the heartbreaking story of Swede Levov, but a firm grasp of who he is and what he means remains maddeningly elusive.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
A haunting, engrossing, often eerily timely adaptation. It's a movie that makes you think and feel - and then think some more.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The better the book, the worse the movie is a sad-but-true rule of thumb. And first-time director Ewan McGregor's calamitous take on Phillip Roth's Pulitzer-winning 1997 novel is awful enough to cement the rule in stone.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The acting is good, but there's something missing - the fire of the turbulent 1960s in which the movie is set, which consumes the family at the center of the story but never ignites the film itself.
Observer
Rex Reed
American Pastoral tries to be loyal in its adaptation, but the material is film-resistant and flat as cardboard.
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