Michael Stuhlbarg
Larry Gopnik
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A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film by the Coen brothers, set in 1967 Minnesota. It follows a Jewish physics professor who faces personal and professional crises, and explores themes of faith, fate and irony.
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.
- (151K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2009-11-06
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...
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- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- R
- Michael Stuhlbarg
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.
- 105 min
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.
1967. Mild-mannered Larry Gopnik, living in suburban Minneapolis with his wife Judith and their two children, teenage Sarah and preteen Danny, is a Physics professor at a local college.
Academy Award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this original and darkly humorous story about one ordinary man's quest to become a serious man.
