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An American Affair (2008)  link to An American Affair on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 200

cover An American Affair

IMDb Rating:
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6.2/10 (1682 votes)

Country: USA, 93 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama

Director(s): William Olsson

Cast: Gretchen Mol (as Catherine Caswell), James Rebhorn (as Lucian Carver), Cameron Bright (as Adam Stafford), Mark Pellegrino (as Graham Caswell), Perrey Reeves (as Adrienne Stafford)

Medium: Unknown,

Plot Outline: What if a boy's coming of age included a relationship with a woman in her 30s, a free spirit who paints and who numbers the President of the United States among her lovers? In Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1963, junior-high student Adam Stafford becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, Catherine Caswell. He steams open her mail, reads her diary, peers into her windows, and hides in her closet. CIA agents notice him; he sees them meet with her and with an anti-Castro Cuban. She hires Adam to work in her garden, and they become friends of sorts. Is theirs an American affair?

Location: J20

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1