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A Serious Man (2009) 7.0
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Metascore: 79/100
Reviews: 308 user | 331 critic | 35 from Metacritic.com Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern mathematics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking. |
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Cast
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| Sari Lennick | ... | ||
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Jessica McManus | ... | |
| Peter Breitmayer | ... | ||
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Brent Braunschweig | ... | |
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David Kang | ... | |
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Benjamin Portnoe | ... | |
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Jack Swiler | ... | |
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Andrew S. Lentz | ... | |
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Jon Kaminski Jr. | ... | |
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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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Release Date:
20 November 2009 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Un homme sérieux See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£321,114 (UK) (20 November 2009)Gross:
$9,190,525 (USA) (1 January 2010)Company Credits
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Written by Marty Balin
Performed by Jefferson Airplane
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
By arrangement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment
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The song heard on the record played repeatedly in the Gopniks' house is Dem Milners Trern ("The Miller's Tears") by Sidor Belarsky, a Yiddish folk song of a sad miller's fears of growing old and alone, echoing the film's theme. See more »Goofs
The blessing that is recited from the bima before the bar mitzvah reads his Torah portion should be "...asher bachar banu..." but in the movie the blessing is said, "...asher natan lanu...," which is the blessing to be recited after a Torah portion is read, and both were supposed to be recited by whoever was called up to the Torah, which in this case was Dani the Bar Mitzva boy. See more »Crazy Credits
Fyvush Finkel's character is listed as "Dybbuk?". See more »Soundtracks
3/5 of a Mile in 10 SecondsWritten by Marty Balin
Performed by Jefferson Airplane
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label
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I saw this movie at TIFF on Saturday. The Coens quietly (and I mean quietly - no-one could hear even their amplified voices) introduced the movie with reference to the actors present but not the movie, letting it speak for itself. And it did. In its own way. It is an off-beat (what else?) and serious work that radiates bleak despair while searching for a funny bone. In the process, the movie makes other black comedies look positively light and airy. The movie evokes laughs from a different place than most – from a profound discomfort watching people twist themselves this way and that to fit in and be regarded seriously, whether situationally, socially or religiously. A great piece of work that will have you thinking long afterwards, especially considering the odd and difficult-to-contextualize prologue and, um different, ending which bookend a remarkable work.