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A Serious Man is a 2009 American black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.
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.
With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances, and a land feud with a neighbor, Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes.
Nov 6, 2009 · 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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2009-11-06
Sep 11, 2023 · A Serious Man Plot Summary. The movie begins with a self-contained short film. In the distant past, a Husband travels home in the snow when a wheel falls off his carriage. He’s helped by a man that, as it turns out, his Wife believes to be dead. She says with certainty that the man must be a ‘dybbuk.’.
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...
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The A Serious Man Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
