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A Serious Man (2009)
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Reviews Counted:170
Fresh:148
Rotten:22
Average Rating:7.8/10
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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 2, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $8,717,516
Synopsis:
Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism - and intersections thereof - A Serious Man is the new...
Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism - and intersections thereof - A Serious Man is the new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen.
A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolff) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job.
While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person - a mensch - a serious man? --© Focus films
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Screenwriter: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Producer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Composer: Carter Burwell
Studio: Focus Features
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Reviews for A Serious Man
Even here, in their mystical-obscure mode, the Coens work cleanly and rigorously.
A unique alchemy seems to take hold on those sporadic occasions when the Coen brothers decide to get down with their ethnic roots.
...for almost the first time in their careers, [the Coen bros.] have twined that jabbing satire with a deeper sense of the tragic.
an at times sublime cinematic exploration of the inscrutable nature of earthly suffering and possibly the best mainstream treatment of that subject since Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors
This is the brothers most personal and most Jewish film, which doesn't stop it from being their most universal and one of their best.
It's a funny film, but mostly to those who convince themselves that there's truth behind every facet of Larry's ludicrously-miserable existence.
Yet another masterpiece from the Coen Brothers. Something like an existential Alfred Hitchcock movie crossed with Jewish spirituality, a touch of mysticism and the Coens' insistence that the rates of mortality and morality are rigidly intertwined.
The human comedy as portrayed in this film was never so cruel — or so funny.
This film is at once laugh-out-loud funny and deeply serious, troubling and satisfying, warm and bleak, both respectful of the Jewish heritage and mocking its restrictions and false comforts.
A Serious Man may be the Coens' most personal film, but the humour's too oblique to truly trouble the funnybone.
Admirers of the Coens – including those who have lapsed, like myself – will rejoice in their best film for a long while, and one of their most irreducibly oddball.
A Serious Man simply doesn't care whether or not you like it. In part, I think that's exactly why I do like it: The "take it or leave it" attitude is refreshing.
Admirably low-key, deeply compelling and their warmest movie since Fargo.
The film’s potency is rooted in quiet precision and detailed realisation. Roger Deakins’s typically polished photography gives an oppressively hard edge to Midwestern suburbia.
Possibly the brothers' most consistently amusing film since The Big Lebowski.
A Serious Man represents the brothers at their sardonic best, wringing a sacrilegious amount of gallows humour from the trials of their latterday Job.
Euphoric, sad and thoughtful all at once... The Coens have finished the noughties as America's pre-eminent film-makers.
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