Indignation
“Based on the novel by Philip Roth.”
DramaRomance
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
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A simmering, intellectually charged drama set against the backdrop of 1950s America. It feels like a pressure cooker of youthful idealism colliding with societal and personal repression, leading to inevitable, explosive confrontations.
tenseintellectualmelancholicfrustratedsteadyperiod dramacharacter studyliterary adaptationidentityclasssexualityprejudice
based on novel or bookjewish lifecollegekorean warohio1950s
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