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A Serious Man (2009)

Name: A Serious Man
Director: Joel Coen
Genre: drama film, comedy drama
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 7

A Serious Man is a 2009 black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesotan Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith.

Directed by Joel Coen · Shot by Roger Deakins · Cut by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · Music by Carter Burwell · 105 min

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Behind the scenes

A Serious Man - Behind the Scenes Featurette — Focus Features · 3 min
Michael Stuhlbarg On Working With The Coen Brothers In A SERIOUS MAN — American Film Institute · 3 min
A Serious Man: Can Life Be Understood? — Nerdwriter1 · 8 min
Michael Stuhlbarg On Getting The Lead Role In A SERIOUS MAN — American Film Institute · 3 min
A Serious Man | Advice from the Junior Rabbi — Focus Features · 6 min

Elsewhere

More by Joel Coen

Jack of Spades
Blood Simple — 1984
Raising Arizona — 1987
Miller's Crossing — 1990
Barton Fink — 1991
The Hudsucker Proxy — 1994
Fargo — 1996
The Big Lebowski — 1998
O Brother, Where Art Thou? — 2000
The Man Who Wasn't There — 2001
Intolerable Cruelty — 2003
The Ladykillers — 2004
Paris, je t'aime — 2006
No Country for Old Men — 2007
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
Burn After Reading — 2008
True Grit — 2010
Inside Llewyn Davis — 2013
Hail, Caesar! — 2016
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — 2018
The Tragedy of Macbeth — 2021

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