2009 1h 45m Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

A Serious Man

Name: A Serious Man
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2009
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick

★ 7.0 IMDb

Comedy Drama

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.

Writer Coen brothers

Cast Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick

DP Roger Deakins

Music Carter Burwell

Essays and Criticism

In conversation with other films

Law and Love by Jan Schulz-Ojala, FIPRESCI

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Awards & Festivals

Nominated Academy Award for Best Picture

Nominated Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay