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Oh, goodie, it’s another Philip Roth adaptation about an aging man awakened in life through an affair with a much younger woman! This one is based on Roth’s latest, The Humbling , and while I’m sure the writing in the novel is great as usual, I can’t help but think the movie version will be more of the same old man with hot actress erotic fantasy stuff of The Human Stain and Elegy . According to the New York Times , Al Pacino , who bought the rights to the book, will star as the suicidal, past-his-prime stage actor who winds up on a farm in upstate New York making it with his friends’ daughter, a 40-year-old (unless Hollywood expectantly lowers here age) with lesbian tendencies and an interest in kinky stuff like strap-ons. Directing the picture is Barry Levinson , who has collaborated with Pacino before in different capacity. He co-wrote the 1979 legal drama …And Justice for All and much later produced Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco
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Barry Levinson to Direct Al Pacino in ‘The Humbling’
