A SERIOUS MAN
Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Official Selection, 2009 Toronto Film Festival

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) has just been informed by his wife that she is leaving him, having fallen in love with one of his colleagues. Larry's brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son is a discipline problem at Hebrew school, and his daughter is filching money to save up for a nose job. On top of all of this, an anonymous letter-writer is sabotaging Larry's chances for tenure at the small Midwestern university where he teaches physics. 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?

DIR/SCR/PROD Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. US, 2009, color, 105 min. RATED R

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