Synopsis
American Pastoral (2016) is a drama you can watch online on iFILM, marking Ewan McGregor's directing debut alongside his lead role. It draws from Philip Roth's Pulitzer-winning novel, with Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning rounding out the family at its center.
Seymour "Swede" Levov was the golden boy — a high-school sports legend, owner of a thriving glove factory, married to a former beauty queen. His postwar life looks flawless. Then the sixties arrive. His stammering teenage daughter Merry, played by Fanning, turns her fury against the Vietnam War and plants a bomb in the local post office. Someone dies, she vanishes, and the Swede spends years searching for her and for the moment it all came undone.
The film traces one family's American dream cracking apart, anchored by McGregor's quiet, wounded performance. It moves slowly and ends bitterly, made for viewers who want a literary drama rather than a thriller's pace. Stream American Pastoral (2016) online on iFILM.
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