A Serious Man

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black comedy film drama film film

A Serious Man is a darkly comic 2009 film by Joel and Ethan Coen that follows a physics professor whose life unravels amid a series of personal and professional crises, exploring themes of faith, fate, and uncertainty.

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A Serious Man canonical 11
A Serious Man – character Larry Gopnik 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf black comedy film ⓘ
drama film ⓘ
film ⓘ
awardNomination Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ
cinematographer Roger Deakins ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
criticalReception positive ⓘ
director Ethan Coen ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ
distributor Focus Features ⓘ
editor Roderick Jaynes ⓘ
festivalScreening Toronto International Film Festival ⓘ
filmRating R ⓘ
genre black comedy ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ
drama ⓘ
mainCharacter Larry Gopnik ⓘ
musicBy Carter Burwell ⓘ
narrativeDevice Job-like protagonist ⓘ
openingSequenceLanguage Yiddish ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ
partOfFilmographyOf Ethan Coen ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ
producer Ethan Coen ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ
productionCompany Focus Features ⓘ
protagonistOccupation physics professor ⓘ
releaseYear 2009 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 106 ⓘ
screenwriter Ethan Coen ⓘ
Joel Coen ⓘ
settingCity Minneapolis ⓘ
settingPeriod 1960s ⓘ
settingRegion Midwestern United States ⓘ
stars Aaron Wolff ⓘ
Fred Melamed ⓘ
Jessica McManus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Michael Stuhlbarg ⓘ
Richard Kind ⓘ
Sari Lennick NERFINISHED ⓘ
theme Jewish identity ⓘ
existentialism ⓘ
faith ⓘ
fate ⓘ
religion ⓘ
uncertainty ⓘ

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Ethan Coen → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Joel Coen → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Eric Fellner → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Amy Landecker → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Michael Stuhlbarg → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Michael Stuhlbarg → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
this entity surface form: A Serious Man – character Larry Gopnik
Richard Kind → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Simon Helberg → workedOn → A Serious Man ⓘ
Michael Lerner → actedIn → A Serious Man ⓘ
Roderick Jaynes → creditedAsEditorOn → A Serious Man ⓘ
Karen Kehela Sherwood → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ
Coen brothers → notableWork → A Serious Man ⓘ