A Serious Man

2009

Action / Comedy / Drama

50
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 89% · 221 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 50K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 159483 159.5K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Ethan Coen Photo
Ethan Coen

Top cast

Michael Stuhlbarg Photo
Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik
Adam Arkin Photo
Adam Arkin as Divorce Lawyer
Peter Breitmayer Photo
Peter Breitmayer as Mr. Brandt
Simon Helberg Photo
Simon Helberg as Rabbi Scott
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885.35 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 26
1.68 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 100+

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Vixo S 8 / 10

A Serious Man is a difficult but rewarding

A Serious Man is a difficult but rewarding film about uncertainty, faith and the human need to find meaning in chaos. The Coen brothers follow Larry Gopnik, a man convinced that his life can be understood through logic, only to watch that order collapse through divorce, debt, family problems and moral confusion. What makes the film powerful is how it refuses to give him clear answers. The religious stories, cultural references and unresolved conversations do not solve his crisis. They deepen it, suggesting that life often resists explanation. Michael Stuhlbarg gives Larry a quiet desperation, making his confusion both comic and painfully human. The film may feel distant at first, especially because of its cultural specificity and unusual opening, but its final impact is strong. It leaves the viewer with a simple and unsettling idea: sometimes the only possible response is to accept the mystery.
Reviewed by Ben W 4 / 10

Sanitised Philip Roth? only read half of one

Sanitised Philip Roth? only read half of one book. So. The Coen bros were my favourites growing up- swear by. I then... had to account for myself. Couldn't. Swear at. If I'm being serious, and it's a difficult thought to express... I view their work less as a completed work, more as their telling us how they've been doing, suffused with what they've been reading; aaaand. I just find the contempt a bit stifling, sorry. Oeuvre. Making crime novels into film- Dashiell Hammet (Glass Key/ Miller's Crossing), Raymond Chandler (Long Goodbye/Big Lebowski), James M Cain (Postman always.../Man who was not...) , ... Fargo, Blood Simple. Making novels ?- True Grit; No Country for Old Men. Inside Llelwyn Davis, O Brother. A serious man. Barton Fink. Trying to be funny / screwball ? comedy- and just about succeeding; Hudsucker Proxy , Raising Arizona. And failing miserably: The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Burn After Reading.
Reviewed by Tom F. 10 / 10

Brilliant and darkly funny. A paen to a

Brilliant and darkly funny. A paen to a swelling and terrifying sense of the meaninglessness of life. In a way the Cohens are master theologians here.
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