A Very Serious Person

Apr 28, 2006

1h 35m

★ 5.8

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.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Jan

Charles Busch

Mrs. A

Polly Bergen

Gil

P.J. Verhoest

Betty

Dana Ivey

Terry

Carmen Pelaez

Mrs. Kupchunas

Becky London

Mr. Horowitz

Marvin Einhorn

Travis

Jonathan Ospa

Waiter

Ben Roberts

Little Girl

Heather Schacht

Carol

J. Smith-Cameron

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