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Indignation

  • 20162016
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  • 1h 50m
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Sarah Gadon and Logan Lerman in Indignation (2016)
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In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean Wa... Read allIn 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
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    • James Schamus
    • Philip Roth(based on the novel by)
    • James Schamus(written for the screen by)
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    • Logan Lerman
    • Sarah Gadon
    • Tijuana Ricks
    • James Schamus
    • Philip Roth(based on the novel by)
    • James Schamus(written for the screen by)
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    • Sarah Gadon
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    Logan Lerman
    Logan Lerman
    • Marcus Messner
    Sarah Gadon
    Sarah Gadon
    • Olivia Hutton
    Tijuana Ricks
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    • Old Age Home Nurse
    Sue Dahlman
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    • Older Olivia
    Jason Jiang
    Jason Jiang
    • Yu Yuan
    Avy Eschenasy
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    Richard Topol
    Richard Topol
    • Mo Greenberg
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    • Max Messner
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    • Walter Semmelweis
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    Joanne Baron
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    Eli Gelb
    • David
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    Linda Emond
    Linda Emond
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    Philip Ettinger
    • Ron Foxman
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    • Bertram Flusser
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    • Trivia
      The name of the college is a tribute to Sherwood Anderson's classic collection of interconnected short stories, "Winesburg, Ohio."
    • Goofs
      Olivia makes reference to a quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin when she says "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Franklin most likely never said this. This quote does not appear in any of Franklin's writings and the word "lunch" did not enter the English vernacular until the 1820s; decades after his death.
    • Quotes

      Marcus Messner: It is important to understand about dying, that even though in general you do not have a personal choice in the matter, it is going to happen to you when it happens to you. There are reasons you die. There are causes, a chain of events linked by causality, and those events include decisions that you have personally made. How did you end up here, on this exact day, at this exact time, with this specific event happening to you?

    • Connections
      Featured in Film '72: Episode #45.10 (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Is It Love
      Music by Jay Wadley

      Lyrics by James Schamus

      Special Performance by Jane Monheit

      Arranged and conducted by Andy Farber

      Recorded and Mixed by Dan Bora

      Recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music

      Mixed at Terminus Recording Studios, NYC

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    7/10
    Well-written and well-acted drama about college life in the early 50s
    "Indignation" (2016 release; 110 min.) brings the early 1950s story of Marcus, a Jersey Jewish kid who's about to go off to college in Ohio. When an older woman learns of this, she responds: "Ohio? How will you keep kosher there?", ha! It's not long before Marcus arrives at the (fictional) Winesburg College in north-central Ohio, where Marcus immerses himself in his studies. But one evening, while working at the library, he notices a strikingly beautiful student. After summoning all of his courage, he finally asks her out for a date... At this point we're not even 15 min. into the movie, but to tell you more would spoil your viewing experience, you'll just have to see for yourself how it all plays out.

    Couple of comments: this is the big screen adaptation of the Philip Roth novel. I haven't read the book so I cannot comment how closely the movie adaptation sticks to the book. This is also the debut of director James Schamus, best know for previously having co-written several of Ang Lee's movies, including "The Ice Storm". Here Schamus brings to life what things were like in the US while the Korean war was raging. Marcus didn't choose to go to college so as to avoid the draft, but because he just loves learning. It is what gives Marcus his identity. However, encountering Olivia changes all that. The movie moves at a slow pace (and I mean that as a complement), certain scenes literally take minutes and minutes to play out. There are several such scenes that are key to the film (Marcus' meeting with the Dean of Students seems to take up at least 10 minutes), allowing plenty of time to examine subject like religious freedom and the at times stifling academic settings on campus. Schamus is able to extract great performances from the leads, Logan Lerman as Marcus and Sarah Gadon as Olivia. But Trace Letts (better known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of such (screen)plays as "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County" ) almost steals the movie as the Dean of Students.

    "Indignation" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival to major critical acclaim. The movie finally opened this weekend at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati, and I couldn't wait to see it. The Saturday early evening screening was PACKED, much to my surprise, Who knew there was such a pent-up demand for this film? The audience absolutely loved the film. It might well be that "Indignation" can become a solid hit on the art-house theater circuit. If you are in the mood for a well-written and well-acted drama about being in college in the early 50s, this movie is just for you. "Indignation" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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      • November 3, 2016 (Brazil)
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