A Serious Man
(2009)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 2,452 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Director: Джоэл Коэн, Итан Коэн
Cast: Майкл Стулбарг, Ричард Кайнд, Фред Меламед, Сари Ленник, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Питер Брейтмайер, Brent Braunschweig, David Kang, Benjamin Portnoe
Plot
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.
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job; his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome house-guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out to a motel when Larry's wife Judy, who wants a divorce, moves her lover Sy into the house and even after Sy's death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances, and a land feud with a neighbor, Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes. Still God moves in mysterious---and not always pleasant---ways, as Larry and his family will find out.