A Serious Man
Discovery
Release date: 20 November 2009
Running time: 105 mins
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind
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The brilliant new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen.
It's 1967, and physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) has learned that his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) is leaving him. She has fallen in love with the pompous Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than Larry. This isn't Larry's only problem. His unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind), his son Danny (Aaron Wolff) and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) are all giving him a headache, not to mention a hostile anonymous letter-writer and a graduate student who seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Meanwhile, the beautiful woman next door torments Larry by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, he seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a 'mensch' - a serious man?
Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Distributor: Universal
You should see it because: The Cohn Brothers' winning streak continues with this intelligent and original campus comedy...
See it if you liked: What Just Happened (2008), Smart People (2008), Burn After Reading (2008)
