A SERIOUS MANEnds Tuesday!  Combine suburban alienation, philosophical inquiry, moral seriousness, a mixture of respect for and utter indifference to Torah, and, finally, a ton of dope, and you get one of the most remarkable oeuvres in modern film.- David Edelstein, New York Magazine Larry Gopnik, a Jewish academic, lives in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in 1967. His wife is on the verge of leaving him for one of his colleagues, his students are defaming him and putting his tenure at risk, and a beautiful neighbor distracts him by sunbathing in the nude. Faced the possibility of his life coming apart at the seams Larry begins to question the value of his existence as he seeks advice from three different rabbis in an attempt to solve his problems and become an austere and devoted man. dir. Joel and Ethan Coen, 1h45m 
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