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*A Serious Man* is a 2009 comedy drama film directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen. The Coen brothers also served as producers, screenwriters, and film editors. The cast includes Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Simon Helberg, and Adam Arkin. Roger Deakins was the director of photography, while Carter Burwell composed the score. Mary Zophres designed the costumes. The film was produced by StudioCanal, Working Title Films, and Relativity Media, with Tim Bevan as executive producer.
Set in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1967, the film is in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew. It has a runtime of 105 or 106 minutes. The movie was distributed by Focus Features and Netflix. It received a National Board of Review Top Ten Films award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. The film originated in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
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Film · TMDB
6.7It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Cast
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik
- Richard Kind as Uncle Arthur
- Fred Melamed as Sy Ableman
- Sari Lennick as Judith Gopnik
- Aaron Wolff as Danny Gopnik
- Jessica McManus as Sarah Gopnik
Themes
- dreams
- midlife crisis
- professor
- minnesota
- dark comedy
- rabbi
- bar mitzvah
- marijuana
- morality
- jewish american
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Written by
- Joel Coen Ethan Coen
- Produced by
- Joel Coen Ethan Coen
- Starring
- Michael Stuhlbarg Richard Kind
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Edited by
- Roderick Jaynes
- Music by
- Carter Burwell
- Production companies
- StudioCanal Relativity Media Working Title Films Mike Zoss Productions
- Distributed by
- Focus Features (United States) Universal Pictures (United Kingdom) StudioCanal (France)
- Release dates
- September 12, 2009 ( 2009-09-12 ) ( TIFF ) October 2, 2009 ( 2009-10-02 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Countries
- United States United Kingdom France
- Languages
- English Hebrew Yiddish
- Budget
- $7 million
- Box office
- $31.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.
A Serious Man received widespread critical acclaim, including a place on both the American Film Institute's and National Board of Review of Motion Pictures's Top 10 Film Lists of 2009. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and Stuhlbarg was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Since its release, it has been widely considered one of the Coen brothers' best films and one of the greatest films of the 21st century.
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