Resource A Serious Man posted on March 5, 2019 in: Watched Film and TV, Film, Comedy and Drama. — Rating: ★★½ — TMDB link Metadata Overview 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.