American Pastoral

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In the 1960s, a successful businessman (Ewan McGregor) tries to find his missing daughter (Dakota Fanning) after police accuse her of a violent bombing. A man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
The film is directorial debut for Ewan McGregor and it is based on the novel by Philip Roth. The novel of the same name won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in Time’s “All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels”.

SCREENINGS
21/10
American Pastoral