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A Serious Man
Comedy, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy philosophical comedy about ordinary suffering, cultural identity, and the frustrating search for meaningful answers.
- Tone
- darkly comic, bleak, surreal
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family upheaval, moral uncertainty, faith, absurdity, personal responsibility
- Setting
- late 1960s, quiet Midwestern suburb and university community
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