Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor at a 1960s university, and his life is coming apart at the seams. His wife (Sari Lennick) is leaving him, his jobless brother (Richard Kind) has moved in, and someone is trying to sabotage his chances for tenure. Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis, but whether anyone can help him overcome his many afflictions remains to be seen.
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We've come to expect drollery and eccentricity from Joel and Ethan Coen. With works like "Blood Simple," "Miller's Crossing" and the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men," the filmmakers have specialized in ruthlessly comic, often mercilessly bleak anatomies of the foibles of ordinary men. (Full review)