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A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film [3] written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, [4] the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.
A Serious Man: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick. Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Despite seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.
Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor at a 1960s university, but his life is coming apart at the seams. His wife (Sari Lennick) is leaving him, his jobless brother (Richard Kind...
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Sep 11, 2023 · How does A Serious Man end? At the end, a tornado is headed towards a school, and the teacher takes the kids (including Larry’s son) out to the storm shelter. The tornado is visible and heading straight for the children.
Oct 7, 2009 · Beginning with a darkly comic prologue in Yiddish, “A Serious Man” inhabits a Jewish community where the rational (physics) is rendered irrelevant by the mystical (fate). Gopnik can fill all the blackboards he wants, and it won’t do him any good.
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job; his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome houseguest.
A Serious Man. Academy Award winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this darkly humorous story about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man.
