Movie: A Serious Man (2009)

• Release Date: 9 October 2009 (Denmark)
• Run Time: 106 min
• Country: USA , UK , France
• Genre: Drama  
• MPAA: Rated R for language, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.

Trivia: In the movie, three of the characters go to a restaurant called “Embers”. Embers is a restaurant chain started in Minneapolis in 1956.
 

Goofs: Anachronisms: One of the albums sent by the Columbia Record Club was “Cosmo’s Factory”, a CCR album released in 1970, not 1967.
 

“Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job,his pot-head son,who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah,only wants him round to fix the T.V. aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out into a motel when Larry’s wife Judy,who wants a divorce, moves her lover,Sy, into the house and even after Sy’s death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers’ bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur’s criminal court appearances and a land feud with a neighbour Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a Korean student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes.Still God moves in mysterious – and not always pleasant – ways,as Larry and his family will find out. Written by don @ minifie-1″