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A Serious Man

A Serious Man

A Serious Man

R
1h 45m
2009

Certified Fresh

89%

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age 17+

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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. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) can’t believe his life: His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won’t move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior and mortality in the film critics rave is “seriously awesome!” (Michael Hogan, Vanity Fair)

Director:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Producer:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast:

Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus

© 2009 Focus Features

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Certified Fresh

89%

Critics Consensus: Blending dark humor with profoundly personal themes, the Coen brothers deliver what might be their most mature -- if not their best -- film to date.

Reviews

Fresh

The last shot alone is so moving, so incredible and complex in its impact, it sears itself into your brain like the twin ghost girls in The Shining, and you go home stunned.

Battleship Pretension

Rotten

This has big "we just won the Oscar, pay us" energy, and leave it to the Coens to go even bleaker at their great moment of triumph.

December 8, 2020

Bay Area Reporter

Fresh

In possibly the funniest and yet most commandingly philosophical film in the Coen Brothers' distinct oeuvre, the mischief kicks off inside the head of a 13-year-old Jewish pothead.

Charleston City Paper

Felicia Feaster

Fresh

A Serious Man may be the hardest of sells for the Coens, but it is the most worthy too: painfully comic, rueful to its core, and capable of leaving Coen fans giddy with the sense that they have returned to form.

January 23, 2020

Fresh

Although it may be small in scale, from the cast of unknowns to the claustrophobic suburban locale, it's big in terms of script, performance and impact.

October 28, 2019

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age 17+

Common Sense Says

Brilliant but bleak comedy for mature Coen brothers fans.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that the Coen brothers' A Serious Man features extensive useof marijuana (in some cases by pre-teen boys) and lots of profanity (from "f--k" and "s--t" on down the line). There's some sexual material as well (a distant view of a topless sunbather, a dream-sequence sex scene), and some brief but bloody moments of violence. The movie also offers viewers complex questions to ponder on the subjects of faith and religion.

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Additional Info

Genre:Comedy, Drama
Release Date:October 2, 2009
Languages:English, Spanish
Captions:English, Spanish
Audio Format:
5.1
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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