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Release Date:
2 May 2002 (Australia)
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Tagline:
Everything Is About To Become Very Clear
Plot:
In the waning months of World War II, a man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jews by their anti-Semitic Brooklyn neighbors...
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2 wins
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3 nominations
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Midway Point: Top 10 Most Anticipated Films of 2009: #5. A Serious Man
(From ioncinema. 9 July 2009)
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Award Nominees.
(From Movie Jungle. 11 December 2008, 8:33 AM, PST)
(From ioncinema. 9 July 2009)
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Award Nominees.
(From Movie Jungle. 11 December 2008, 8:33 AM, PST)
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What a difference a pair of eyeglasses make...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William H. Macy | ... | Lawrence 'Larry' Newman |
 | Laura Dern | ... | Gertrude 'Gert' Hart |
 | David Paymer | ... | Mr. Finkelstein |
 | Meat Loaf | ... | Fred (as Meat Loaf Aday) |
 | Kay Hawtrey | ... | Mrs. Newman |
| Michael Copeman | ... | Carlson |
| Kenneth Welsh | ... | Father Crighton |
| Joseph Ziegler | ... | Mr. Gargan |
| Arlene Meadows | ... | Mrs. Dewitt |
 | Peter Oldring | ... | Willy Doyle |
| Robert McCarrol | ... | Meeting Hall Man (as Robert Mccarrol) |
| Shaun Austin-Olsen | ... | Sullivan |
| Kevin Jubinville | ... | Mr. Cole Stevens |
| B.J. McQueen | ... | Mel |
| Conrad Bergschneider | ... | Tough's Leader |
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Rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence and some sexual content.
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106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:M |
Iceland:12 |
Finland:K-11 |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:PG |
Norway:15 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #38298)
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Neal Slavin claimed to have wanted to make this film since college.
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Anachronisms: About halfway through the movie, Larry and Gert are in an automobile. There is a vinyl "Sport Grip Steering Wheel Cover" laced around the steering wheel of the car. It is noticeable due to its distinctive pattern of perforations and cushioning. This item was not in existence in 1944, the year the movie is set in.
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Quotes:
Finkelstein:
They are a gang of devils and they want this country!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Shanghai Kiss (2007)
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Soundtrack:
My First Love
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Most people attending this film will have no idea of the great novel by Arthur Miller that is the basis of it. It's a novel that should be read by more people to see how prejudice affects and alters peoples lives.
At the beginning, Lawrence Newman is an ordinary man. The eyeglasses his boss makes him get change everything he has worked for and his whole world collapses around him, little by little. There couldn't have been an actor better suited to bring this intelligent performance to the screen than William H. Macy. Not only is he a talented stage and screen actor, but he projects honesty behind every character he plays. He is an everyday man caught in his own insecurities. His anxiety intensifies when he takes a stand and walks out of his job. Suddenly, he has to confront the issues he has tried to avoid all his middle class existence in the Brooklyn of the 40s. Is he Jewish, is he not? The cinematography in this brilliant and atmospheric film, directed with sure hand by Neil Slavin, kept reminding me of some Edward Hopper's paintings, especially a sequence at the beginning of the film when Newman steps outside a building and the night shot when he and his wife are being followed with long black shadows behind the couple, menacing and anticipating the confrontation with the bullies. Laura Dern, David Paymer, and especially Meat Loaf, who infuses incredible depth to the bully-next-door, are excellent, but they all pale in comparison with the stellar turn of William H. Macy (H must stand for HONEST..) If you haven't read the book, I would sincerely recommend it because no one has written more truly and convincingly than Arthur Miller has.