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Feature film — 2006

A Very Serious Person (2006)

5.91h 35mDrama

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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Director: Charles Busch

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Cast & crew

Charles Busch as Jan

Charles Busch

Jan

Polly Bergen as Mrs. A

Polly Bergen

Mrs. A

P.J. Verhoest as Gil

P.J. Verhoest

Gil

Dana Ivey as Betty

Dana Ivey

Betty

Carmen Pelaez as Terry

Carmen Pelaez

Terry

Becky London as Mrs. Kupchunas

Becky London

Mrs. Kupchunas

M

Marvin Einhorn

Mr. Horowitz

J

Jonathan Ospa

Travis

B

Ben Roberts

Waiter

H

Heather Schacht

Little Girl

J. Smith-Cameron as Carol

J. Smith-Cameron

Carol

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