

“Accept mystery.”
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.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$7,000,000
Revenue
$31,400,000

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Danny Gopnik
Sy Ableman Questions Larry’s Uncertainty From Beyond the Grave
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A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.