A serious man [videorecording] / Focus Features presents in association with StudioCanal and Relativity Media a Working Title production ; written, produced and directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.

Contributor(s): Publisher number: 113374 | AllianceLanguage: English, French, Spanish Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Focus Features four-star collectionPublication details: Montréal : Alliance, [2009]Description: 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • French title from container and disc surface: Homme sérieux
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Richard Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.
Cast: 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.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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Video Video Marshall Public Library Adult Media Adult DVD DVD Serious (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33051005295336

Videodisc release of the 2009 motion picture.

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.

Director of photography, Richard Deakins ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.

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.

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.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1; widescreen (1.85:1).

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

English, French or Spanish dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

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