Indignation Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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.

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Drama Adaptation

• 
  Logan Lerman

  ... Marcus

  Bullet Train, Fury

• 
  Sarah Gadon

  ... Olivia Hutton

  You Gotta Believe, Ferrari

• T
  Tracy Letts

  ... Dean Caudwell

  Deep Water, Ford v Ferrari

• B
  Ben Rosenfield

  ... Bertram Flusser

  Person to Person, Affluenza

• L
  Linda Emond

  ... Esther

  The Unforgivable, A Bird of the Air

Who is making Indignation – Crew List

The film's writer James Schamus last penned The Wedding Banquet and The King's Daughter.

Director

James Schamus

Screenwriter

James Schamus

Producers

Anthony Bregman
James Schamus
Rodrigo Teixeira

Production – What we know about the Indignation

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Key Facts

• Based on the 2008 novel by Philip Roth.

Movie Filming Timeline: Production Status Updates

Jan 2016

Completed

Changed Indignation movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

Nov 2014

Pre-Production

Changed the movie production status to Pre-Production. Production is scheduled to take place in summer 2015.

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