A serious man
(2010, original release: 2009)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/SERIOUS

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/SERIOUS Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Universal City, CA : Universal, [2010]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9786313407507 62106191, 025195052740
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Videodisc release of the 2009 motion picture

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

Release date: Feb. 9, 2010

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

Rating: R; for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence

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

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

English, French or Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles

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