In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.
Indignation Reviews
“This is one helluva compelling film that presents us with several of the very best performances of the year.” – Chicago Sun-Times
“Longtime screenwriter and producer James Schamus adapts longtime novelist Philip Roth's novel of love and death and Midwestern collegiate life, and turns what might have been an exercise in mid-century nostalgia into something vital and resonant.” – San Diego Reader
“Thoughtful and reserved, perhaps even to a fault, "Indignation” winds up packing a wallop far greater than its modest parts might suggest." – Washington Post