Stick around through the end cred-rnits of Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man, and you'll see the disclaimer "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture." That statement is classic Coen: deadpan funny and not to be trusted. Indeed, the film is full of Jews-residents of a Midwestern suburb in 1967-who seem bent on harming the Coens' hapless hero, college physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), either directly or just by ignoring his mostly mute cries for help.rnNot that the Coen brothers, who were raised in an academic Jewish family outside Minneapolis and were 12 and 9, respectively, when the movie takes place, are self- or other-hating Jews.
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