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A Serious Man (2009)
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Director:Ethan Coen | Joel Coen
Starring:Simon Helberg | Adam Arkin | Richard Kind | Michael Stuhlbarg | George Wyner | Fyvush Finkel | Katherine Borowitz | Peter Breitmayer | Amy Landecker | Stephen Park
Genres:Comedy
Languages:English
Synopsis:"A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. 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 colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person -- a mensch -- a serious man?


Customer Review
A Seriously Dull Film 5 out of 100
I love the Cohen Brothers. Well, I love and hate them. Loved Fargo, hated Blood Simple. Loved Miller's Crossing and No Country, hated Barton Fink. This film is just dull. A man suffers Job-like torment. Everything bad that can happen happens. But he is spineless and quiet and mever takes a stand. You cannot relate to him. He's taken for granted and taken advantage of. It's well acted but dull. Dull, dull, dull. Best avoided unless you fancy a REALLY quiet night in.
Brendan from Dublin , 24 May 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Didnt even watch the end 5 out of 100
I really didnt get this movie. All of the characters are unlikable. I didnt care what happened to the main character. A wasted 90 mins
Laura from Galway , 28 Feb 2011
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Sllllllllllllllllllllllow 15 out of 100
Very, very slow.
James from Dublin , 17 Nov 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Rubbish 5 out of 100
The biggest load of b... Please dont ever rent this. There is a weird start. It doesnt ever go anywhere and the ending there is no ending. I wasted an hour and a half of my life that i will never get back because of this. Rubbish rubbish rubbish...
Larry from Kildare , 28 Oct 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Good but could have been great. 30 out of 100
After three quarters of an hour I thought this film was one of the best I'd seen, by one hour 15 I was tired of it. What I took to be a slow measured setting of the scene was in fact the film and it just didn't move as it could have. There were three great characters as well as a few great story lines intertwinning and yet none of them got the detail they deserved so instead we got a mish mash of what could have been three great films.
Seamus from Monaghan , 27 Oct 2010
0 people out of 1 found this review helpful

Stay Away 5 out of 100
Worst movie i have ever seen!!!!!!!
Darragh from Wicklow , 25 Sep 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Crap 5 out of 100
Worst movie I have rented in years, do not rent this movie unless you want to watch paint dry. At least that might have a better finish.
Adrian from Cork , 19 Sep 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Strange 10 out of 100
The title of the movie matches its content. There were times as I watched the professors life unravel I felt empathy for Prof. Lawrence 'Larry' Gopnik. his wife was not a nice person.
Mary from Limerick , 18 Sep 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Dull movie 5 out of 100
This was a complete waste of time renting, dull and rubbish movie
Paul from Kildare , 03 Sep 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

A Serious Man 35 out of 100
By no means the Cohn brothers beat film...tought it was too introverted...no real story and too Jewish!
Jimmy from Dublin , 26 Aug 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Has promise. Looking forward to seeing it finished 25 out of 100
Quirky and with great characters like all Coen films, this one is just a little too self indulgent. I don't need to be spoonfed and have everything wrapped up neatly at the end of a film but the out of the blue finish in A Serious Man just takes things too far. Smacks of "we're so successful now we can do what we like". Too many loose ends even for a Coen film.
Alan from Dublin , 11 Aug 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Awful 5 out of 100
Awful awful awful awful awful
Emma from Dublin , 26 May 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

RUBBISH, RUBBISH, DO NOT BOTHER 5 out of 100
One of the worst movies I have ever had to sit through, did not even make it to the end.
Sheila from Cork , 21 May 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

Good drama, not the usual Coen Brothers fare 35 out of 100
Like all Coen Brothers films, this is quirky. It is intrigueing and brilliantly acted. Ultimately, however, it just doesn't go anywhere. It's obviously meant to leave you thinking and it certainly does, but it's just not quite satisfying enough.
Eamon from Meath , 28 Apr 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

A Serious Man 40 out of 100
A film of cruel comic genius
Frances from Clare , 27 Apr 2010
0 people out of 0 found this review helpful

SERIOUSLY RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 out of 100
Save yourself a wasted night in and leave this one down in the basement and filed under S! One of the worst ,most drawn out ,mind churningly boring piece of over hyped and over bloated cinema I have seen in years. Normall these guys produce something memorable ,on this occasion the aliens must have abducted them or else they produced this to see just what crap can actually sell. YOU HAF BEEN WARNED!
emmet from Dublin , 19 Apr 2010
2 people out of 2 found this review helpful



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