A Serious Man
Oct 02, 2009 | IMDB 6.7
106 min Watch NowComedy, Drama
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. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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