mackeymary-98-478708 Brilliantly filmed and acting superb American Pastoral shows how lives can be turned upside down even for those whose beginnings are so charmed and envied. It's a sad movie but not false in the story of family, parental love and how, given the circumstances, that love can't save or fix what shatters their existence. Yes, we don't truly know what motivates Merry. But, in real life there are times, we never have the answers. Ewan McGregor captures this brilliantly.

richard-lee-morris The story is fairly stereotypical. Elements include a rebellious teenager , an overworking father, and mentally unbalanced mother, who was a beauty queen in college! The acting is very good, but the story is contrived.

stevenstark What a strange one this is. The movie strays pretty far from the book, and plays like the weirdest episode of Mad Men never filmed. The tone is unrelentingly dour, and the point is... what? Stuttering leads to radicalization? Don't have a mixed marriage? The 60s were a bitch? It's well done, and the filmmakers' hearts were in the right place but David Strathairn as the Philip Roth character and Ewan McGregor as a Jewish guy? Nope.

subxerogravity A great movie by Ewan McGregor starting Ewan McGregor. Ewan McGregor takes on on a very dramatic turn as he plays An All- American college star with as beauty queen wife raising an all American daughter who gets caught up in the revolution of the 60s.The daughter is played by Dakota fanning in the type of roles she gravitates towards even when she was underage. Jennifer Connelly does an outstanding Job as the shield wife. In fact McGreogor creates the type of film all actors want to be have a role in.It creates a vast spin of emotion as you start to go through what main character is going through as his life spirals downward out of control.Well done direction by Ewan McGregor.http://cinemagardens.com