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.
Direction
Coens at their most personal and cruelly precise
Acting
Stuhlbarg's face carries 106 minutes of escalating panic
Writing
The three-rabbi structure is comedic scripture
Director
Ethan Coen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire film is loosely based on the Book of Job, with Larry's three rabbi visits mirroring Job's friends.
Stuhlbarg filmed most scenes in chronological order, so his genuine exhaustion by the third rabbi is real.
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