A Serious Man
- Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Cast: Jessica McManus, Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Michael Stuhlbarg
1 hr. 45 min. Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.
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Synopsis for A Serious Man:
The Coen brothers' sly but hilarious new comedy, A SERIOUS MAN, is "a tart, brilliantly acted fable of life's little cosmic difficulties," says the Chicago Tribune. The Los Angeles Times calls it "a pitch-perfect comedy of despair," and New York Magazine praises it as "hauntingly original." The Austin Chronicle says A SERIOUS MAN is "rich with ideas and contemplations and packed with the sort of existential jokes that tickle the Coen boys so." But Time Out New York puts it best when it instructs, simply: "See this film immediately."
A SERIOUS MAN is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. 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, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person -- a mensch -- a serious man?