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America in the post-war boom: Seymour Levov (Ewan McGregor) is a perfect citizen with a perfect life: a one-time sports legend at his high school in Newark, he's now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former Miss Jersey (Jennifer Connelly) and father to the enchanting Merry (Dakota Fanning). Together, they live in a beautiful house in rural Old Rimrock. An idyll. But contemporary upheavals - the student revolts, race riots and anti-Vietnam War protests at the end of the 1960s - don't spare Levov and his picture-book family and in their wake Merry joins a militant group. She is accused of involvement in a terrorist attack and disappears without trace. A nightmare begins for Seymour and Dawn, a nightmare reflecting the tragedy of a whole nation.Ewan McGregor's debut film as director is a tense, star-studded portrait of America in the Nixon era, in which everything is questioned: the social order, personal happiness, moral integrity on an individual and a national basis, and the promise of eternal growth and prosperity. A generational drama based on the 1997 novel by Philipp Roth which won a Pulitzer Prize.

Regie

Ewan McGregor (*1971) hatte seinen Durchbruch als Schauspieler 1998 mit seiner Rolle in Danny Boyles Trainspotting. Mittlerweile ist er eine feste Größe in Hollywood und zog mit seinem Spiel die Zuschauer immer wieder in den Bann, sei es in Tim Burtons Big Fish, Baz Lurmans Moulin Rouge oder in den Super-Blockbustern Stars Wars-Episode 1-3.

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