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Feb 09, 2023Mrndl_1 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I thought it was a veiled rebuttal of the woke movement, but the film came out in 2017. Very powerful scenes throughout. It portrays and refutes the perception that some people/peoples have it made and consequently somehow are responsible…
Sep 30, 2022Veranda rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Acting was superb...i found the script captivating, but not sure why...was a jumble of "that couldnt possibly happen in real live" but realistic reactions to that happening in real life...
Oct 29, 2020bdehler rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I did not buy that this daughter got so screwed up from her loving family to turn into a crazy Viet Nam war terrorist. Too over the top...
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Feb 05, 2020MarionRosannaAnna rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Jmg2000 is spot on with the assessment of this film being agonising. It is so dark and distressing and I had to pause it numerous times, trying to deal with parent concerns for the naive or ill-considered passions of unworldly youth, the…
Aug 13, 2019AmyEighttrack rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really liked this film. From the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Philip Roth, the "Pastoral" in the title for me is more for the meditative, trance-like state it put me in, rather than a geographical location.
Jun 18, 2019jimg2000 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
pas·to·ral (noun) -- a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. Roth tells an agonizing social drama when a storied family is turned upside down as the daughter explores her own identity during the chaotic…
Mar 19, 2019
returned March 19, 2019. Library was closed. It got confusing because they changed the drop off box. Fyi have returned all dvds (3) that were due March 21.
Oct 02, 2018MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Dark, dreary take on the American cultural revolution of the 1960s. The Philip Roth novel is no doubt better than this movie, which flirts with but fails to answer the question of why upper-middle-class children brought the Vietnam War…
Jul 25, 2018
It's better than most of the media reviews suggest. I'd call this film a noble failure. It's definitely worth watching. I don't like Philip Roth's novels all that much and I'm not surprised that this attempt to put one on film didn't…
May 26, 2018elsiecat rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
Awful. The character of the daughter is a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out of a "terrorist." She is completely unbelievable and without any redeeming qualities. Basically, its propaganda to tell the audience that politically motivated…
Jan 20, 2018readyrisa rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Dark and thought provoking.
Dec 19, 2017ArapahoeJeremiah rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Succeeds well in communicating its theme, despite a little awkwardness due to the difficulties of packing a dense, serious novel into a movie. I was very moved by the ending.
Nov 25, 2017
Don't be discouraged by all of the negative comments. This is a pretty good movie. It's complicated and might make you uncomfortable because there is no clear right and wrong. I haven't read the book yet and I always like the book more…
Sep 17, 2017scatdiane rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I read the novel just before I watched the movie and was upset by the movie, how they distorted the point of it. In the novel, Roth shows the complexity and humanity of all the characters. The movie starts out well and some scenes seem…
Sep 12, 2017firefly5 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This is one of the worst films I have watched. I kept on waiting for a point to this story and there was none. Although I did fast fwd. a few times, maybe I missed it. The acting was terrible as well as the story. All I saw was a…
Sep 10, 2017maipenrai rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I wanted to like this film, but it was so dark and seemingly pointless that I became more and more disengaged. A golden boy who loves his daughter loses her to her own acts of violence. The beloved daughter stutters so that she does not…
Aug 12, 2017voisjoe1_0 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
While the name of the radical group that was at the center of the story was not mentioned, I suspect that it may be the Weather Underground or The Black Liberation Army. Upon that premise, I gave the film a better rating than most critics…
Jul 25, 2017
Ugh. This movie was hard to watch mainly due to its stereotypical, one dimensional portrayal of women, as either unhinged, cold, saints or whores. There is also a nonsensical sex scene, which appears, most likely, for the male viewing…
Apr 30, 2017CatfoodShawn rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
My bias may be showing, as a fan of Phillip Roth to begin with, but that aside, this film left me bringing back scenes unexpectedly in my mind for days, after seeing it. Just sudden, random wondering about the story. Films rarely do that…
Mar 20, 2017hammer59 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The writer Philip Roth won a Pulitzer for the novel this film is based upon. It is darkly interesting and unique, and well worth a watch....but not nearly as original or brilliant as "The Human Stain" which Roth also wrote.