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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.

Set in 1951, Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J., leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism & sexual repression, and pines after a troubled girl.