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Sep 11, 2023 · Near the end of A Serious Man, Larry accepts bribe money to pass a failing student in order to help pay for his lawyers. Perhaps this choice brings forth the literal stormy wrath of God? Maybe Larry should’ve heeded Rabbi Nachtner’s simple advice?
Sep 11, 2022 · It’s hard to believe that any movie developed by the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen could be overlooked since their projects have received such critical acclaim, however, the 2009 film A Serious...
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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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 decade after its release, ‘A Serious Man’ remains the brothers’ ultimate articulation of their world view. But what that view actually encompasses remains a brilliant mystery, writes Ed Power
Oct 7, 2009 · Someone up there doesn’t like Larry Gopnik. 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.
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It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
