A Serious Man

Name: A Serious Man
Released: 2009-10-2
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff

A Serious Man

R
1h 45m
2009

90%

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)

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

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

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

Charleston City Paper

Felicia Feaster

A Serious Man may be the hardest of sells for the Coens, but it is the most worthy too: painfully...

Although it may be small in scale, from the cast of unknowns to the claustrophobic suburban locale...

The movie develops into a pretty good rabbi joke about the meaninglessness of the universe.

By the time A Serious Man ends in a stunner of a conclusion, the Coen Brothers have once again pul...

Drawing upon the biblical Book of Job, A Serious Man is easily the most Jewish film that writer-di...

October 3, 2019

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Common Sense Media

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.