The Humbling

Summary: Based on Philip Roth’s novel, The Humbling tells the story of a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age at a secluded country house in Connecticut. Simon Axler (Al Pacino) has known nothing but the stage since he was thirteen. When he feels his craft slip away from him, he has a mental breakdown and retreats to the woods to live a quiet life until the daughter of his closest friend shows up at his house. The relationship takes unusual turns as people from their past surface and chaos ensues.