The Coen Brothers have reached a point where the release of one of their films has turned into an event. While most of their films have dealt with the corrupting influence of money, their latest film A Serious Man seems to be something of a departure. It's the story of a regular guy in the late 1960s who's life is crumbling all around him. His wife is leaving him for a schmuck colleague; his daughter is robbing him blind so she can get a nosejob; his son is a pain; his brother sleeps on the couch; oh, and one of his students is trying to blackmail him into giving a passing grade. So what's his only course of action? He goes seeking advice from three very different rabbis.
The trailer is short, but I'm digging the premise already. The Coens excel at making movies about desperate people forced to do things they aren't accustomed to, and there seems to be an element of that here.
A Serious Man is set to release October 2, 2009.
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