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A Very Serious Person
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A Very Serious Person

Jan 1, 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

Cast

P.J. Verhoest

Gil

P.J. Verhoest

Dana Ivey

Betty

Dana Ivey

Polly Bergen

Mrs. A

Polly Bergen

Carmen Pelaez

Terry

Carmen Pelaez

Charles Busch

Jan

Charles Busch

Becky London

Mrs. Kupchunas

Becky London

Marvin Einhorn

Mr. Horowitz

Marvin Einhorn

Jonathan Ospa

Travis

Jonathan Ospa

Ben Roberts

Waiter

Ben Roberts

Heather Schacht

Little Girl

Heather Schacht

J. Smith-Cameron

Carol

J. Smith-Cameron

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