A young Jewish atheist from Newark, New Jersey named Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman) attends college in 1951 Ohio, where he clashes with both the school’s established social order and its Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) as well as his overbearing parents’ hopes for his future. At the same time, he falls for an attractive, complicated classmate named Olivia (Sarah Gadon). Again with a film based on a novel. This film is based on a novel called...