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A Serious Man (2009)

A Serious Man (2009)

Drama Comedy

Accept mystery.

Release Date: 2009, October 2
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Countries: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Focus Features, StudioCanal, Relativity Media, Working Title Films, Mike Zoss Productions
Cast: Richard Kind, Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Lerner, Steve Park, Amy Landecker, Fred Melamed, George Wyner, Warren Keith, Wayne A. Evenson, Peter Breitmayer, Joel Thingvall, Simon Helberg

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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