A Serious Man

A Serious Man

2009 · 106 min · EN · R · 6.7 (2,372 votes)
Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus · Music Carter Burwell

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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.

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Experience a darkly comedic descent into one man's unraveling life, where the universe seems to conspire against him. It's a journey through existential dread and the search for meaning amidst relentless absurdity, all wrapped in a distinctly melancholic, yet often hilarious, Midwestern unease.

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