Uzo Aduba, David Strathairn join 'American Pastoral' ensemble

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Uzo Aduba, David Strathairn and Peter Riegert have joined the cast of the film American Pastoral, starring Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning.

McGregor is directing the project for Lakeshore Entertainment. The drama is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Philip Roth.

Adapted by John Romano, the movie is to begin filming this month in Pittsburgh, Pa. It follows Seymour "Swede" Levov, "a legendary, high-school athlete, who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father's business," a news release said.

"Swede's seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a deadly act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War."

The picture is being produced by Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi.