Rating: 6
Running Time: 1:35
Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind
Mature Audience, Drama
Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) is a college physics professor living in the Minneapolis suburbs in the 1960's. His careful, well-ordered life begins to unravel. His wife tells him she is going to leave him for a very unlikely acquaintance of theirs. He begins to worry about his tenure when told the tenure committee has recieved anonymous letters questioning his morals, presumably written by a student upset about his failing grade. His ne'er-do-well brother has big gambling problems. He begins to get phone calls from a record company he's never heard of, and he awaits results of his recent X-rays. This is not a happy or upbeat movie, but a worthwhile one. You keep hoping the poor guy's luck will change. It has recieved uniformly positive reviews, since it is written and directed by the Coen brothers, whose work has generally been good.
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