A Serious Man

…seriously!
A Serious Man (2009)
Timing: 1:46 (106 min)

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Release date
Genre
Budget
$7 000 000
Box office
$31 430 334
Director
Actors
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Peter Breitmayer, Brent Braunschweig, David Kang, Benjamin Portnoe
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Robert Graf
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Jess Gonchor, Jeff Schoen
Audition
Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner
Editing

Short description

It 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.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film is set in 1967. It states that Larry's wife, Judith Gopnik, hires the firm "Tacman Marsh." Sandy Farber hires the same firm in the Coen brothers' previous film, "Burn After Reading," which is set in 2008.
  • In the end credits, you can notice an ironic phrase: "No Jews were harmed during the making of this film."
  • The tornado approaching the city in the final scene is a real event, coinciding in time and location with the events in the film. The tornado in southern Minnesota on April 30, 1967, which claimed thirteen lives, was nicknamed “Black Sunday” by locals (including the film’s directors).

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