Release Date
July 29, 2016
DVD Release Date
November 8, 2016 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Writer
Running Time
110 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated R for sexual content and some language
Based on Philip Roth’s late novel, Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Were kids in college in the 1950s just a hell of a lot smarter than they are today? Logan Lerman plays a well-spoken, intellectual freshman who can philosophize better than most in Indignation (now on Blu-ray), a quasi-coming-of-age tale in which he meets a beautiful but psychologically fragile woman and spars with his dean. Full movie review »
