Later, Paramount Pictures acquired the rights, and in May 2012, Fisher Stevens was hired to direct John Romano's adapted script, with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment attached as financier and producer along with Lakeshore. In 2003, Lakeshore Entertainment started the development of the film, with Phillip Noyce attached to direct, and the film title shortened to Pastoral. David Strathairn as Nathan Zuckerman, a former classmate of Jerry and narrator.Samantha Mathis as Penny Hamlin, wife of the murdered Rimrock store owner.Valorie Curry as Rita Cohen, a mysterious woman.Sheila Smith, young Merry's speech therapist Uzo Aduba as Vicky, a longtime employee at the glove factory.Rupert Evans as Jerry Levov, Seymour's younger brother.Peter Riegert as Lou Levov, father of Seymour and a successful Jewish American businessman and glove manufacturer.Dakota Fanning as teenaged through adult Meredith "Merry" Levov, daughter of Seymour and Dawn, who commits an act of political terrorism at the age of 16.Jennifer Connelly as Dawn Dwyer Levov, a former beauty queen and wife of Seymour.Ewan McGregor as Seymour "Swede" Levov, a former high school star athlete and a successful Jewish American businessman, whose character is based on college athlete Seymour "Swede" Masin.As the mourners are leaving, a cleaned up middle-aged Merry arrives, silently passing her uncle and mother as she walks to Swede's grave. we are wrong" about our assumptions "about everyone". In the present, at Swede's funeral, Nathan muses that we know we are alive when we realize that "all the time. The years pass as Swede returns occasionally to stand outside the abandoned house where he last found Merry without ever seeing her again. She has no desire to return home, and says that if he loves her, he will let her be. In the quiet of her unkempt and simple life style her stutter has ceased. She has withdrawn from society, and is practicing extreme asceticism within the Indian Jain religion, which Swede attributes to her penance. She tells of how she later slid into the underground, where she was robbed and raped. During two brief visits, Merry confesses to Swede that she made and planted a total of 3 bombs, killing 4 people. Rita takes him to a skid-row area of Newark where Merry now lives. In 1970, Swede spots Rita on a New York City street. She tells Swede that Merry has destroyed their former life, and tries to get Swede to forget about Merry so that they can start a new life. After treatment, Dawn seeks a facelift and starts an affair with a neighbour. The strain of Merry's disappearance eventually causes Dawn to have a nervous breakdown. ![]() Rita runs off with the money and leaves no further information regarding Merry. Swede meets Rita in the hotel room, but spurns her mean-spirited attempts to seduce him. Rita tips off Swede with credible information about Merry, hints that she knows Merry's whereabouts, then asks him to meet her at a hotel with $10,000 cash. After Swede unsuccessfully hounds the FBI for information on Merry's whereabouts, 22-year-old Wharton Business School student Rita Cohen visits the factory, ostensibly working on a report for business class. Swede and Dawn visit Penny Hamlin, the wife of the store owner who was killed, to apologize. Merry disappears, and is the FBI's prime suspect, though Swede and Dawn believe she is innocent or, if involved, being forced to act by older radicals she met in New York. A few days later, the town's little post office and store is destroyed by a bomb, killing the owner. When Merry lashes out during the 1967 Newark riots, Swede urges her to channel her energy into protesting against the war from closer to home. ![]() By the time Merry reaches high school, she has become increasingly radicalized towards Anarchism, as the Vietnam War rages, and frequently goes to New York City to take part in antiwar protests. ![]() Smart and quirky Merry struggles with a stuttering problem, and is deeply affected as a 12-year-old by the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức in 1963. They have a daughter, Meredith ("Merry"), and settle in the town of Old Rimrock, where they acquire a farm, with Swede commuting the 30 miles to the Newark glove factory. Lou is skeptical because Swede is Jewish and Dawn is a devout Roman Catholic, but her strength and honesty sways him. The story moves back to a young Swede persuading his father, glovemaking magnate Lou Levov, to let him marry his high school sweetheart, New Jersey's 1947 Miss America contestant Dawn Dwyer. They talk about Jerry's older brother, former all-state star athlete Seymour "Swede" Levov, class of '44, who recently died after a long illness. ![]() In 1996, at the 45th-year reunion of the class of '51 at Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, writer Nathan Zuckerman meets one of his old friends, Jerry Levov.
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