Title:
A serious man / Focus Features presents in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media a Working Title production ; written, produced and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.
Publication Information:
Universal City, CA : Universal, [2010]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced 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.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1).
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.
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Language Note:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Audience:
Rating: R; for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.
Performer:
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.
Production Credits:
Director of photography, Richard Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.
OCLC Number:
ocn488793663
Availability:
Farmington~1