American Pastoral

American Pastoral

  • Director: Ewan McGregor
  • Writer: Philip Roth,John Romano
  • Countries of origin: Hong Kong, United States
  • Language: English, Hebrew
  • Release date: October 21, 2016
  • Sound mix: Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: El fin del sueño americano
  • "American Pastoral" is a crime film directed by Ewan McGregor, starring Ewan McGregor , Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, and was released in 2016.
    "American Pastoral" is adapted from "American Pastoral", one of "American Pastoral" in "American Trilogy" by American author, Nobel Prize nominee and winner of The Pulitzer Prizes Philip Roth ( Philip Roth ). The end-of-the-century disillusionment of the American dream of a decent Jewish entrepreneur.

    Details

    • Release date October 21, 2016
    • Filming locations Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    • Production companies Lionsgate, Lakeshore Entertainment, TIK Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $544,098

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $149,038

    Gross worldwide

    $2,063,436

    Movie reviews

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    • By Branson 2022-11-28 02:39:04

      Maybe all girls' first love is their father

      I cried to death watching this film, because I couldn't stand my father's tears at all. The father-daughter relationship in the film is simply words that I can't say from the bottom of my heart.
      My father, of course, does not have the blonde hair and blue eyes of my father in the film, but he is also handsome and super patient. When I was a child, I didn't want to let my mother help me with my homework. My motivation to study, I am willing to get the best grades for him. I became a...

    • By Enid 2022-11-23 08:34:27

      Time is changing

      William Manchester documents a case in Glory and Dreams: In 1967, an 18-year-old girl named Linda, the daughter of a tea importer, refused to go back to an aristocratic school in Maryland and instead went to New York to study art. After moving to the East Village, she spent all the money her family sent to buy drugs and became addicted to promiscuity. In October of that year, she met four black drug dealers while dating a homeless man in a boiler room full of shit, cockroaches and garbage....

    • By Stefan 2022-11-18 03:15:14

      This is probably the Electra complex...

      The needs of revolution are always rooted in individual shortcomings and dissatisfaction, and the problems of society and the times are often just excuses and opportunities for revolution. Some of this demand comes from boredom, a "romantic disease"; others have a practical psychological basis. Just as Mary used "anti-war" as an excuse to release her inferiority complex as an imperfect member of a perfect middle-class family. Perhaps the subtlety of class consciousness is that it may not...

    • By Marjolaine 2022-11-16 21:15:22

      Everyone has a hole in their heart

      After watching the film American Pastoral, I generally remember the story of how a happy family was gradually disintegrated by a troubled child. How a daughter with extreme thinking goes step by step to the extreme road of no return. How a great father would try his best to save his daughter until she died.

      It used to be a joy to have a girl in my family growing up, but she looks like the one in the movie - she forced her mother into a mad bitch, and tortured her father to half...

    • By Hunter 2022-11-11 08:11:50

      In fact, this is a deep film that reflects the complex emotions of human nature.

      It is anti-war, but it reflects the influence of psychology on people, and the collapse of the heart destroys everything... Therefore, anti-war is just a pretext. From the middle of the film to the end, the more and more dull and sad plot tells the greatness of father's love, which is never betrayed... But the fact is not so simple, maybe only people with similar experiences will feel the same. Therefore, it is not easy for ordinary people to resonate. I have to say it's a good movie,...

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    • By Rickey 2023-09-26 15:57:18

      I feel sorry for this father. What kind of people a child grows into sometimes negatively thinks it's luck, regardless of parental education, upbringing environment, only child or companion, poor or rich, single parent or double parent, you never know what kind of person your child will be. . I have always had a bad impression of religion and other organizations that want to brainwash and control...

    • By Geraldine 2023-09-12 07:31:04

      The degree of completion is very high. Except for the ending, the original novel is restored, and the sense of age and atmosphere are in place. The symbolism of the novel is very strong. A broken family of three is used to symbolize the contradiction between the World War II generation and the anti-war generation. Several leading actors perform well. The end of the novel is chaos, the end of the movie seems to have hope of return, ideal is always better than...

    • By Janelle 2023-09-11 20:28:20

      I don't know how the original work is, but at first glance, this film is a literary work turned into a movie, and the narrator's point of view is not the taste of ordinary movies. Even though the film was flat, with few highlights, I was intrigued by the story of the family falling apart, a rare outspoken critique of the dark side of hippies. Ewan McGregor is an interesting guy who avoids the male gaze on his debut feature film and leaves the best scenes in the film to his female colleagues,...

    • By Watson 2023-09-06 19:43:32

      Human nature is so complicated that it is better than nothing. Jennifer Connelly is still so beautiful. Dakota Fanning is ugly as she grows up. Is it another proof that she was good-looking when she was a child and grew up...

    • By Brenna 2023-08-29 17:49:44

      The narrative jumps to the limit, and the characters are vivid and three-dimensional, but Dakota's performance is obviously not enough. The character is the core, so much so that Ivan and Connery's efforts are...

    Movie plot

    McGregor plays Lviv, a baseball star who did not continue to play after graduation, but chose to study and inherit the family business, eventually marrying Miss New Jersey and becoming a successful businessman, giving birth to a lovely daughter. But behind the happy family life lurks chaos and crisis. His beloved daughter planted a bomb in the grocery store, claiming to bring the war from Vietnam to the United States, and then...
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    Movie quotes

    • Swede Levov: You were involved in something there, something political.

      Merry Levov: Everything is political. Brushing your teeth is political.

    • Merry Levov: Daddy, how much suffering do you want?

      Swede Levov: Who are you? Where is my daughter? My daughter did not kill four people. Say it isn't you. Say it isn't you!

    • [last lines]

      Nathan Zuckerman: [narrating funeral] You come at people with an open mind, and yet you never fail to get them wrong. You get them wrong while you're with them, or you tell someone about them and get them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive. We are wrong. About the Swede, how life was going to open its arms and shower blessings upon him, I was never more wrong about anyone in my life.