A serious man / Focus Features presents, in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media, a Working Title production.

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One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunba...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Focus Features
Studio Canal
Relativity Media
Working Title Films
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Other Authors: Coen, Ethan
Coen, Joel
Stuhlbarg, Michael
Kind, Richard
Melamed, Fred, 1956-
Lennick, Sari
Arkin, Adam
Landecker, Amy, 1969-
Mandell, Alan
Finkel, Fyvush, 1922-2016
Rickman, Allen Lewis
Shmulenson, Yelena
Helberg, Simon
Borowitz, Katherine
Park, Stephen
Language:English
French
Spanish
Language and/or Writing System:
Includes English, dubbed French, and dubbed Spanish language soundtracks, with optional subtitles in English (SDH), French or Spanish.
Published: Universal City, CA : Universal, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Focus Features four-star collection.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Middle-aged men > Drama.
Jewish men > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Comedy films.
Dark comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Comedy films.
Dark comedy films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
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Summary:
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior, and mortality.
Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features: "Becoming serious": explore the creative vision behind the film; "Creating 1967": take a tour of the Minneapolis neighborhoods and set pieces used in the film; "Hebrew and Yiddish for goys": unravel the mysteries of the Hebrew and Yiddish languages.
Videorecording.
Call Number:PN1995.9.M46 S43 2010 VideoDVD
CV6 D0122151 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: R; for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.
Credits:Writers/producers/directors, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen ; director of photography, Richard Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.
System Details:DVD, region 1, NTSC; widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Cast:
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Adam Arkin, Amy Landecker, Alan Mandell, Fyvush Finkel, Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, Simon Helberg, Katherine Borowitz, Stephen Park.