2016 · crime · drama · music
American Pastoral
Directed by Ewan McGregor1h 48m2016
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Our read: American Pastoral (2016) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- bleak
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