A Very Serious Person

A Very Serious Person

A Very Serious Person

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A Very Serious Person

2006

1h 35m

5.5(15 votes)

Drama

Overview

Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.

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11 members

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Charles Busch

Jan

Charles Busch

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Polly Bergen

Mrs. A

Polly Bergen

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P.J. Verhoest

Gil

P.J. Verhoest

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Dana Ivey

Betty

Dana Ivey

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Carmen Pelaez

Terry

Carmen Pelaez

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Becky London

Mrs. Kupchunas

Becky London

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Marvin Einhorn

Mr. Horowitz

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Jonathan Ospa

Travis

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Ben Roberts

Waiter

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Heather Schacht

Little Girl

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J. Smith-Cameron

Carol

J. Smith-Cameron

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