A 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.
Philip Roth
Logline: Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression, and pines after a troubled girl.
Logline: Follows a famous stage actor in decline who is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman.
Logline: Set in 1960s America, centers on Swede, a man who watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
