The 1960s Social & Political Turmoil of 'American Pastoral' Comes to the Big Screen

Since its release back in 1997, Philip Roth's American Pastoral has widely been considered to not just be one of the acclaimed author's greatest works, but one of the greatest American novels of all-time -- it didn't take home the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for nothing. Now, nearly two decades later, Roth's depiction of the social and political turmoil of the '60s is getting the Hollywood treatment as Paramount and Lionsgate bring it to the big screen. Marking the directorial debut of Ewan McGregor,...