5.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Serious People (2025)
Serious People (2025)
Overview
Serious People is a 2025 comedy-drama co-directed by Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson. Pasqual Gutierrez stars as a music video director who, facing a major job offer coinciding with his child's due date, hires a doppelganger to maintain his work-life balance in Los Angeles. Christine Yuan and Miguel Huerta co-star. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
5.8
Overview
Serious People is a 2025 comedy-drama co-directed by Pasqual Gutierrez and Ben Mullinkosson. Pasqual Gutierrez stars as a music video director who, facing a major job offer coinciding with his child's due date, hires a doppelganger to maintain his work-life balance in Los Angeles. Christine Yuan and Miguel Huerta co-star. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film's core conflict revolves around personal tensions between career demands and family responsibilities in the creative industry, presented through absurdist comedy without endorsing partisan viewpoints. This neutral focus on individual dilemmas, rather than systemic or ideological critiques, determines its centrist stance.
Visible ethnic diversity appears in the cast of Latino and Asian actors depicting a director's family life. The narrative addresses work-life balance and paternity responsibilities through subtle tensions in gender roles, without explicit critiques of traditional identities.
Secondary
The film shows an expectant father hiring a stand-in for work to attend his child's birth. This choice underscores the priority of family obligations over career, in a straightforward nuclear family setup.
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative explores work-life balance and impending fatherhood through a heterosexual couple's experiences.
The film contains no identifiable transgender characters or themes. Its narrative focuses on work-life balance through a doppelgänger plot, without addressing transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Serious People presents an original story of a male director hiring a male doppelgänger to manage work during his wife's pregnancy. No adaptations, historical figures, or legacy characters appear, so no gender swaps occur.
Serious People presents an original narrative about a music video director and his doppelganger, with no source material, adaptations, or historical figures establishing prior racial canons for characters.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.9
5.0
Critic Ratings
6.4
N/A
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