American Pastoral (2017)

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by TAC

This any good? Never heard of it.

It has one of the best trailers of all time:

American Pastoral Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly Movie HD - YouTube

The film itself is uneven, but full of great moments, great performances and beautiful imagery.

I think it might have worked better as a 6-part miniseries, like the one currently running from another Roth novel, The Plot Against America. All the elements are there in this film, but it just feels like it tries to cover too much in only 1hr48 mins.

That said, if you're interested in the 60s, or you're an Ewan McGregor fan, it's worth seeing.

I'd describe it as being kind of like a feature-length version of the entire beginning-to-end run of "Mad Men," in the way it shows the epic sweep of the 60s through the life of one ordinary man in a suit, who is bewildered by all the changes around him.