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.

Logan Lerman
as Marcus Messner

Sarah Gadon
as Olivia Hutton

Tracy Letts
as Dean Caudwell

Linda Emond
as Esther Messner

Joanne Baron
as Mrs. Greenberg

Ben Rosenfield
as Bertram Flusser

Philip Ettinger
as Ron Foxman

Pico Alexander
as Sonny Cottler

Noah Robbins
as Marty Ziegler

Danny Burstein
as Max Messner
Reno
**Life is unexplained, but to keep it going depends on the events surround it/us.** The film certainly defines two things, the life is unpredictable and the college life in the 1950s. Based on the book of the same name, made by a producer turned director which is his first attempt. A pure drama t...