

A Serious Man
Film · 106 min · English · 2009
Directed by Ethan Coen
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.
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- United States
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- 2026-09-27
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- MRR-2009-FLM-907605
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