A Serious Man (DVD)

Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, dental phenomena, academia, mortality, and Judaism – and intersections thereof – A Serious Man is the new film from Academy Award-winning writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen.

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 acquaintances, 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, can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

General

Studio:	Universal Home Entertainment
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2010
Movie released:	2009
Directors:	Joel Coen • Ethan Coen
Actors:	Michael Stuhlbarg
Dimensions:	192 x 137 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 41 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Video format:	Widescreen 16:9 (1.78:1)
Languages:	English
Age restriction:	15 NL
Categories:	DVD > Comedy DVD > Drama DVD > Art Films DVD > Feature Film
LSN:	XJW-B3V-BNE-5
Barcode:	5050582752823

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