A Very Serious Person

2006 | 95 minutes | 5.8 ★ (14)

A Very Serious Person
  • 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.

  • Release Date

    01 January 2006

  • DirectingCharles Busch
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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