Indignation

Based on the latest novel by Philip Roth, Indignation takes place in 1951, when Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman ), a bright child Jewish belonging to a working class family in Newark, New Jersey, travels with a scholarship to a small and conservative University of Ohio, which exempt from being recruited to fight in the Korean War. In However, once there, growing his love for his beautiful girlfriend Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon ), and also clashes with the dean of the University impose, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), he and his family puts at its best the last test aircraft. This film directed by debutant James Schamus, who has the courage to adapt a Roth is his directorial debut.