New Coen Brothers’ film A Serious Man opens Thanksgiving at the 5 Points Theatre

November 25, 2009 Comments »

As the title of this post indicates, the new Coen Brothers’ movie A Serious Man opens Thanksgiving day at the 5 Points Theatre, with shows at 5, 7 and 9 pm.  For more showtimes, go to www.5pointstheatre.com.

The Coen Brothers are famous for their unbroken string of astounding and truly different movies, from Raising Arizona to Fargo to O Brother, Where Art Thou to the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men (with many more in between).

Here’s a brief synopsis that I’m sure does not do justice to the film (from IMDB):

A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary mans 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 (Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larrys unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolff) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job.