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A Serious Man
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Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life. His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry
… More »Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life. His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior, and mortality.
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Imprint:
[United States] - Universal
Language:
English, French, and
Spanish
Awards & Distinctions:
Independent Spirit Awards, 2010: Robert Altman Award
Credits:
Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; edited by Roderick Jaynes [i.e., Joel & Ethan Coen] ; production designer, Jess Gonchor ; music by Carter Burwell.
Performers:
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Adam Arkin, Katherine Borowitz, Sari Lennick, Amy Landecker, Alan Mandell, Fyvush Finkel, Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, Simon Helberg, Stephen Park.
Suitability:
Rating R for language, some sexualitynudity and brief violence
Notes:
Special features: Featurette on the Coen Brother's creative vision ; featurette on re-creating 1967 ; featurette on Yiddish
In English and Yiddish, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1
In English and Yiddish, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009
DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1
Statement of responsibility:
Focus Features ; Working Title ; in association with Studiocanal and Relativity Media ; written, produced and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (106 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in
Other author misc:
[Coen, Joel, Coen, Ethan, Arkin, Adam, Kind, Richard, Studio Canal., Melamed, Fred., Focus Features, Relativity Media, Stuhlbarg, Michael, Working Title Films, Borowitz, Katherine, Universal Pictures (Firm)]
Call number:
DVD SERIOUS
Library Identifier
2628640
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Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life. His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior, and mortality.
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Add a CommentI found this Coen brothers dark comedy/drama hilarious, well written, and very entertaining.
My favorite Coen brothers film of all time. A modern day story of Job. Brilliant writing and acting as usual. Fantastic. I realize it's not for everyone, however. The Coens show that there is beauty, humor and wonder in the midst of our suffering. NOT for those who watch film purely for escapism purposes.
This story did nothing for me. The "humour" just wasnt there. I would pass on this one.
Many very good scenes in their ridiculousness, vagueness and wonderful humorous awkwardness. In the end, the point is that there is no point, it seems; it all ends just as the tooth story does-going nowhere but in a very enjoyable Coen brothers' way!
The Coen brothers triumph at times (see the Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, O Brother Where Art Thou, etc.) and at others fall short (Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading, etc.) and this film probably belongs in the second category. Its meditations on the Jewish-American experience veer between the profound and the stereotypical for the most part. For fans only.
remember this is the late 1960's. Job-like Larry wonders why so many bad things are happening to him. some very poignant and very funny moments.
This was okay...I don't know. The story did not draw me in. But the acting was very good.
A Serious waste of time
This was difficult to watch, I almost turned it off. You almost want to laugh because Larry is so sad, but couldn't because he is such whiner. In the end, the story doesn't really go anywhere.
Full of delightful parts... but do they add up to anything? Does it really even matter? The Coen brothers' existentialist parable is as bewildering as it is touching, as frustrating as it is uplifting and ultimately, as silly as it is profound. You can't help but wish the film were a conjunction of shorts, just so you never expect it to make any sense and thus, don't end up feeling cheated.