1991   USA Barton Fink
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Director:Ethan Coen
Studio:20th Century Fox
Writer:Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
IMDb Rating:7.8 (38,906 votes)
Awards:Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 2 nominations
Genre:Comedy
Duration:116 min
Languages:English
IMDb:0101410
Amazon:6302291879
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Ethan Coen  ...  (Director)
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen  ...  (Writer)
 
John Turturro  ...  Barton Fink
John Goodman  ...  Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis  ...  Audrey Taylor
Michael Lerner  ...  Jack Lipnick
John Mahoney  ...  W.P. Mayhew
Tony Shalhoub  ...  Ben Geisler
Jon Polito  ...  Lou Breeze
Steve Buscemi  ...  Chet
David Warrilow  ...  Garland Stanford
Richard Portnow  ...  Detective Mastrionotti
Christopher Murney  ...  Detective Deutsch
I.M. Hobson  ...  Derek
Meagen Fay  ...  Poppy Carnahan (as Megan Faye)
Lance Davis  ...  Richard St. Claire
Harry Bugin  ...  Pete
Roger Deakins  ...  Cinematographer
Carter Burwell  ...  Composer
Ethan Coen  ...  Editor
Joel Coen  ...  Editor
Summary: A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from the Coen brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro (Miller's Crossing, Jungle Fever) plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but his desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds himself holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost immediately afflicted with writer's block. Various distractions begin to enter his life, first in the form of a famous southern writer (John Mahoney) whom Fink idolizes, and then his neighbor in the hotel, a seemingly amiable salesman played by John Goodman (Sea of Love, Raising Arizona). The writer turns out to be a self-loathing drunk whose secretary (Judy Davis) is the one actually doing the writing. And the neighbor, the working-class hero who Fink made his reputation writing about, may have a horrifying secret of his own. Equal parts social commentary and hilarious farce, and winner of the Best Picture, Actor, and Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Barton Fink is a visionary and original comic masterpiece not to be missed. --Robert Lane


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