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A serious man [videorecording] / Focus Features presents in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media a Working Title production ; written, produced and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 62106191 | UniversalLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Focus Features four-star collectionPublication details: Universal City, Calif. : Universal, [2010]Edition: WidescreenDescription: 1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles:
  • Serious man (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .S474 2010
Production credits:
  • Executive producers, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner ; producers/directors/writers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell ; production designer, Jess Gonchor ; costume designer, Mary Zophres ; casting by Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner.
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, George Wyner, Peter Breitmayer, Aaron Wolff, Ari Hoptman, Jessica McManus, David Kang.Summary: One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) 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.
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DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; dual layer.

English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles ; English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

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, George Wyner, Peter Breitmayer, Aaron Wolff, Ari Hoptman, Jessica McManus, David Kang.

Executive producers, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner ; producers/directors/writers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ; photography, Roger Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell ; production designer, Jess Gonchor ; costume designer, Mary Zophres ; casting by Ellen Chenoweth, Rachel Tenner.

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.

MPAA rating: R; for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.

One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) 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.

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