A Serious Man (2009) Reviews & Ratings

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A Serious Man reviews

A Serious Man holds a 6.7/10 average from 2,494 TMDB ratings.

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. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.

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