This film is being presented as part of the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library's Wednesday Movie Club, a weekly showcase of movies that matter for people who love movies. Attendees will be invited to discuss the film immediately following the screening. Registration is not required.

You asked for it....and now it's here: the monthly series we're calling "weird but wonderful," because the films we'll be showing are both weird and wonderful.  This month's selection is the Coen Brother's A SERIOUS MAN.  Widely recognized as one of the "greatest films of the 21st Century," this black comedy film follow Larry Gopnkik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor and modern day Job whose 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.  As Claudia Puig of USA Today put it, "A SERIOUS MAN is a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing film.  Underlying the grim humor are serious questions about faith, family, mortality and misfortune."

Rating: R (profanity, marijuana use, brief nudity)
Runtime: 105m
Production Year: 2009
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Amy Landecke
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen