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In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

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Olivia Hutton
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Marcus
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Dean Caudwell
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Bertram Flusser
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Esther
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Marty Ziegler
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Mrs. Dadidovich
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Sophomore Girl
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Student
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Student
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Church Volunteer
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Mrs. Greenberg
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Ron Foxman
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Sonny Cottler
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Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl. Written by THR

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