A Serious Man

A Serious Man

  • Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Writer: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, France, United States
  • Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew
  • Release date: November 6, 2009
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Un hombre serio
  • "A Serious Man" is a feature film co-directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen , starring Michael Stuhlbarg , Richard J. Kind , and Sally Lennick.
    The film tells the story of ordinary people in a Jewish community in the United States in 1967. It was released in the United States on October 2, 2009   .

    Details

    • Release date November 6, 2009
    • Filming locations Czech Republic
    • Production companies Focus Features, StudioCanal, Relativity Media

    Box office

    Budget

    $7,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $9,228,768

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $251,337

    Gross worldwide

    $31,430,334

    Movie reviews

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    • By Norval 2022-08-03 18:55:04

      "Serious Men" Tell Us that Life is Full of Uncertainty

      Does the movie presumably say Larry and Eberman are a set of Schrödinger's cat's relationships? It is also a car accident. You don't know whether the cat in the box is alive or dead when you open the "box" of the car accident.

      Life is full of uncertainty and you never know what will happen next. What may happen in the infinite number of parallel spaces is due to the personality of the individual. The possibility is reduced and finally disintegrates into a definite...

    • By Joana 2022-04-23 07:01:52

      Actually it's fine

      If you want to be a serious man, you will not be so serious.
              A middle-aged man, a series of bad things, needless to mention. He didn't do anything wrong, and tried his best to be submissive, but life was still so real. He went to seek help, priests, lawyers, it seems that can't help him, maybe he can only accept the will of God. But life didn't treat him so badly, he might be awarded a lifetime position, his son was baptized, and his wife changed his mind, but there was still a...

    • By Kirsten 2022-04-23 07:01:52

      an uncertain world

      When I was young, I was a fan of physics. From junior high school, I began to figure out the relationship between force, motion, momentum, etc., and I fell into modern physics science books in high school. Although he has not made any achievements in physics, nor engaged in physical research, and even his knowledge will not exceed the scope of popular science books, he naturally knows Schrödinger's uncertainty principle and the famous problem of cat life and cat death. The film is not esoteric...

    • By Dejah 2022-04-23 07:01:52

      Discussion on the theme of film

      Serious men recommend 5 stars.
      This is a great masterpiece. Accidents can no longer start unexpectedly, making me think I bought the wrong disk. Pieces of seemingly trivial and bizarre plots, plus unique characters, and deep themes have earned the film an Oscar nomination for best work. The Coen brothers mature and perfect the use of light and color composition and the focal length of the camera to construct the image world. The jazz application of formalism, and the superb cutting...

    • By Darren 2022-04-22 07:01:17

      familiar tune

      How should I say it~~ This movie is a familiar tone, a familiar rhythm, a familiar picture, a familiar style, eyes, expressions, actions

      , and there are still many fans of the Coen brothers~ Anyway, the story itself is not very boring because there is really no No matter how boring the

      protagonist is, there are multiple clues or backgrounds that are constantly impacting the protagonist. A small film with no ending and no answer. The
      director took the red wine and said...

    User comments

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    • By Kristin 2023-09-27 09:24:47

      still don't...

    • By Yasmin 2023-08-22 15:20:06

      Cohen makes me very confused and...

    • By Kiel 2023-03-27 17:45:45

      The black life of a middle-aged man, quite dark humor, career love child brother, really going crazy... Don't be serious, receive with simplicity everything that happens to you end-to-end correspondence + parallel...

    • By Evie 2023-02-24 14:01:51

      Learn to compromise and die less miserably and...

    • By Easter 2023-02-09 14:11:19

      An example of Schrödinger's cat theory, a very profound master...

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    "Serious Man" fully demonstrates the uncertainty of life through a series of life experiences of a university physics professor within two weeks. At the same time, the film describes the protagonist’s process of seeking answers and solutions to life’s dilemmas through various film and television symbols, fully showing the absurdity of social reality in the 1960s, and highlighting an existential proposition. Serious questions about life...
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    Movie quotes

    • Sy Ableman: Do you drink wine? Because this is an incredible bottle. This is not Mogen David. This is a - heh heh - a wine, Larry. A Bordeaux.

      Larry Gopnik: You know, Sy...

      Sy Ableman: Open it. Let it breathe. Ten minutes. Letting it breathe, so important.

      Larry Gopnik: Thanks, Sy, but I'm not...

      Sy Ableman: I insist! No reason for discomfort. I'll be uncomfortable if you don't take it. These are signs and tokens, Larry.

      Larry Gopnik: I'm just-I'm not ungrateful, I'm, I just don't know a lot about wine and, given our respective, you know...

      [Sy abruptly hugs him]

      Sy Ableman: S'okay. S'okay. We're gonna be fine.

    • Arlen Finkle: We, uh, we decide on Wednesday, so if there's anything you want to submit in support of your tenure application, we should have it by then. That's all.

      Larry Gopnik: Submit. What. What do you...

      Arlen Finkle: Well. Anything. Published work. Anything else you've done outside of the institution. Any work that we might not be aware of.

      Larry Gopnik: I haven't done anything.

      Arlen Finkle: Uh-huh.

      Larry Gopnik: I haven't published.

      Arlen Finkle: Uh-huh.

      Larry Gopnik: Are you still getting those letters?

      Arlen Finkle: Uh-huh.

      Larry Gopnik: Those anonymous...

      Arlen Finkle: Yes, I know. Yes.

      Larry Gopnik: Okay. Okay. Wednesday.

      Arlen Finkle: Okay. Don't worry. Doing nothing is not bad. Ipso facto.

    • Larry Gopnik: The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can't ever really know... what's going on. So it shouldn't bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term.