Based on Jack London's autobiographical novel, Jack London’s Martin Eden, directed by Jay Craven, tells the story of a poor and unschooled talented writer (Martin Eden), who unexpectedly meets Ruth Morse, a magnetic young woman of means and education. Their unconventional attraction upends both lives and propels timely themes of impossible love, pursuit of the American Dream, and the quest for a comfortable place within the realities of the late 19th Century American class system.

The film is the opening-night presentation at this fall’s Boston Film Festival.

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