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A Serious Man

2009 R 1h 46m Comedy, Drama Focus Features

Accept mystery.

A Serious Man Box Office

Opening Weekend
$251.3K
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$9.2M
Final
Worldwide Total
$30.4M
$21.1M international
Budget$7.0M
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Oct 2-4 31 $251K $251K 6 $41.9K 1
Oct 9-11 24 $459K +82.7% $811K 21 $21.9K 2
Oct 16-18 15 $843K +83.4% $1.84M 82 $10.3K 3
Oct 23-25 12 $1.09M +29.8% $3.20M 176 $6.2K 4
Oct 30-Nov 1 13 $1.04M -5.2% $4.60M 238 $4.4K 5
Nov 6-8 18 $864K -16.7% $5.83M 262 $3.3K 6
Nov 13-15 18 $657K -23.9% $6.83M 240 $2.7K 7
Nov 20-22 18 $444K -32.4% $7.48M 198 $2.2K 8
Nov 27-29 22 $478K +7.7% $8.16M 173 $2.8K 9
Dec 4-6 23 $221K -53.7% $8.49M 160 $1.4K 10
Dec 11-13 27 $146K -33.9% $8.72M 152 $963 11
Dec 18-20 27 $98K -32.8% $8.89M 117 $840 12
Dec 25-27 36 $66K -32.7% $9.04M 49 $1.3K 13
Jan 1-3 36 $92K +39.2% $9.19M 49 $1.9K 14

Performance Charts

Charts show the first 10 weeks · see the tables above for the full run

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Profitability

Return on Budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget

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Cast & Crew

Directed byJoel Coen, Ethan Coen
ScreenplayJoel Coen, Ethan Coen
Produced byJoel Coen, Ethan Coen
CinematographyRoger Deakins
Music byCarter Burwell
StarringMichael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus
StudioFocus Features

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