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A Serious Man (2009)
7.1
Ratings: 7.1/10 from 50,256 users
Metascore:
79/100
Reviews: 273 user | 302 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com
A black comedy drama centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel through multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking for meaning and answers he seems to stay stalled. |
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Mitch Brandt
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Clive Park
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Andrew S. Lentz | ... | |
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Jon Kaminski Jr. | ... | |
| Ari Hoptman | ... |
Arlen Finkle
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Alan Mandell | ... | |
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Storyline
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job, his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out into a motel when Larry's wife Judy, who wants a divorce, moves her lover, Sy, into the house and even after Sy's death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances and a land feud with a neighbour Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes. Still God moves in mysterious - and not always pleasant - ways, as Larry and his family will find out. Written by don @ minifie-1
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DramaMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Un hombre serio See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$251,337 (USA) (4 October 2009) (6 Screens)Gross:
$9,190,525 (USA) (3 January 2009)Company Credits
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Trivia
In his argument with the Columbia House records employee over the phone, Larry Gopnik repeatedly rejects the album Abraxas by Santana. Abraxas is a Gnostic term for God, particularly a God who encompasses all things from Creator of the Universe to the Devil, and an etymological root for "abracadabra". It is thus implied that Larry Gopnik is vehemently rejecting God and magic. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: F Troop was an ABC show, which would have been channel 9 in the Twin Cities at that time. Channel 4, that they kept trying to find, was CBS (WCCO). There was nothing on channel 7, a station they complained came in poorly. See more »Crazy Credits
Fyvush Finkel's character is listed as "Dybbuk?". See more »Connections
Referenced in "Jeopardy!: Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational Semifinal 3 (#26.168)" (2010) See more »
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