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An American Affair
Directed by
William Olsson
R
2008
1h 32m
Drama
6.1
17%
41%
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In 1963, during the swirl of glamour and intrigue that turned President John F. Kennedy's Washington into Camelot, a lonely 13-year-old Catholic school boy comes of age.
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Cast of An American Affair
Gretchen Mol
Catherine Caswell
James Rebhorn
Lucian Carver
Cameron Bright
Adam Stafford
Noah Wyle
Mike Stafford
Mark Pellegrino
Graham Caswell
Perrey Reeves
Adrienne Stafford
Jimmy Bellinger
Jimmy
Jermaine Crawford
Andre
Jack Ruby
Self (archive footage)
Austin Majors
Additional voice
William Olsson
Director / Producer
Alex Metcalf
Writer
An American Affair Ratings & Reviews
naa_08
June 17, 2025
too many plotholes. jfk where? lowkey pedophilic af. longest hour and a half of my life, no thanks.
Washington Post
Dan Zak
An earnest, fictional coming-of-age story is squeezed from a bitter, true-life local tragedy. And it works.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bob Strauss
Out of its mind at a deep, essential level, An American Affair plays its dubious scenario with a straight face that makes the silly thing quite watchable.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The title sums up the bland, unimaginative and cliche-laden thriller/coming-of-age tale.
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
Before An American Affair is over, you can be sure that Adam will learn a very familiar life lesson.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
There are scenes that work here and there, but regrettably not nearly enough to hold the film together. In the end, this affair is definitely not one to remember.
At the Movies
Ben Lyons
Painfully contrived
At the Movies
Ben Mankiewicz
Start to finish, [the film] makes absolutely no sense.
Washington City Paper
Tricia Olszewski
Turns out An American Affair needed more than a name change to save itself from embarrassment.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Even the famous M Street stairs from "The Exorcist" are out of place in the climax of this lightweight movie.
Metromix.com
Geoff Berkshire
The most compelling moment comes from archival footage.
Film.com
MaryAnn Johanson
It's all presented so earnestly... that you barely realize at the time how preposterous it all is. Intrigue! Cubans! The Bay of Pigs! JFK! It's the coming-of-age tale filtered through the mind of Oliver Stone,
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This is not, by any reasonable definition of the term, a professional film, even though several experienced and established actors have been inveigled to inhabit it
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Even Oliver Stone would giggle.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Gretchen Mol, lounging semi-nude as she smokes near an open Georgetown window, would spark any young man's curiosity and recklessness. But the assassination story line is absurd.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Subscribes wholeheartedly to the history-as-pornography school of thinking, in which all will be revealed if you can figure out who is sleeping with whom, when and where and what they do in bed.
Variety
John Anderson
The Cuban Missile Crisis is a year passed and the assassination is looming, and yet Adam's pubescent crises are given Wagnerian emphasis.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Sketchily written, clumsily directed and poorly acted, even history-conspiracy aficionados will be left cold.
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
An unholy genre mutation undreamt of on the isle of Dr. Moreau, An American Affair piggybacks the pubescent sexual awakening sapfest onto the JFK assassination conspiracy thriller.
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