Indignation

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Based on Philip Roth’s 2008 novel, Indignation is a drama directed by James Schamus. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, and Ben Rosenfield.

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 his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.

In an interview with Variety, Lerman spoke about what drew him to the film. “There aren’t a lot of great characters out there for young people. I was trying to find something different and complex and challenging. I read the script and thought, “How the hell am I going to do this?” Marcus is so much smarter than me. There was one scene, this clash of ideals between Marcus and the dean of his college, that was so thought provoking and interesting that I went, “I have to do this film.””

Indignation is rated 14A.