Philip Roth: Unmasked
Philip Roth: Unmasked

Philip Roth: Unmasked

10.0

1 hr 30 min

2013-03-13

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Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist, turns 80 on March 19. In 1959, his collection of short stories, Goodbye, Columbus, put him on the map, and 10 years later his hilarious, ribald best-seller, Portnoy’s Complaint, gave rise to the first of many Roth-related controversies in which Judaism, sex, the role of women, and the parent-child relationship would take center stage. In candid interviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winner discusses his distinctly unliterary upbringing in Newark, NJ, his admiration for Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, and how Zuckerman may or may not be his alter-ego. Nathan Englander, Mia Farrow, Jonathan Franzen, and Martin Garbus are among those who talk about the man and his writing. Franzen in particular praises Roth for “how brave he must have been to have methodically offended everybody and to have exposed parts of himself no one had ever exposed before.”

Documentary

Trailers

Characters

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

Himself

Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

Herself

Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Himself

André Dussollier

André Dussollier

(voice)

Mia Farrow

Mia Farrow

Self

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