A Very Serious Person (2006)

5.8/10 • 95 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Charles Busch

Jan

Polly Bergen

Mrs. A

P.J. Verhoest

Gil

Dana Ivey

Betty

Carmen Pelaez

Terry

Becky London

Mrs. Kupchunas

J. Smith-Cameron

Carol

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