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Synopsis

"A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. 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 colleagues, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry's chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person — a mensch — a serious man?

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Cast

Michael Stuhlbarg		Larry Gopnik
Sari Lennick		Judith Gopnik
Richard Kind		Arthur Gopnik
Fred Melamed		Sy Ableman
Aaron Wolf		Danny Gopnik
Jessica McManus		Sarah Gopnik
Adam Arkin		Don Milgram

Weekend Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
10/2/2009	29		$251,337		6	$41,890	$251,337	3
10/9/2009	23		$459,318	+82.75%	21	$21,872	$811,304	10

Daily Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
10/2/2009	-		$72,987		6	$12,165	$72,987	1
10/3/2009	-		$105,585	+44.66%	6	$17,598	$178,572	2
10/4/2009	-		$72,765	-31.08%	6	$12,128	$251,337	3
10/5/2009	-		$25,399	-65.09%	6	$4,233	$276,736	4
10/6/2009	-		$26,096	+2.74%	6	$4,349	$302,832	5
10/7/2009	-		$24,412	-6.45%	6	$4,069	$327,244	6
10/8/2009	-		$24,742	+1.35%	6	$4,124	$351,986	7
10/9/2009	-		$122,397	+394.69%	21	$5,828	$474,383	8
10/10/2009	-		$203,231	+66.04%	21	$9,678	$677,614	9
10/11/2009	-		$133,690	-34.22%	21	$6,366	$811,304	10
10/12/2009	-		$68,660	-48.64%	21	$3,270	$879,964	11
10/13/2009	-		$43,176	-37.12%	21	$2,056	$923,140	12
10/14/2009	-		$41,401	-4.11%	21	$1,971	$964,541	13

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