A Very Serious Person

January. 01,2006      
Rating:
6.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Dana Ivey as  Betty
Polly Bergen as  Mrs. A
Carmen Pelaez as  Terry
Charles Busch as  Jan
Becky London as  Mrs. Kupchunas
J. Smith-Cameron as  Carol

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