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Studio: Focus Features
Studio: Focus Features
Release Date: Sep 12, 2008
Running Time: 95 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osbourne Cox arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry. Elsewhere in the Washington D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer. Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men. When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of encounters.
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Burn After Reading is that rare satirical thriller--a devilish, delicious, diabolically dark, irreverent and insanely funny movie that could only have come from the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen. Story Following on the heels of the deep cynicism of their Oscar winning, No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers have crafted an original screenplay that falls back on the kind of human satire they have exploited so well in past efforts like Fargo and The Big Lebowski. This screwball comedy with a
PETER TRAVERS -
September 18, 2008
All the Academy Awards that Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men produced an unintended effect: It made the outlaw brothers respectable. That's got to be driving them nuts. (Have any Oscar winners ever looked more miserable on camera?) Luckily, the idiot-boy side of the Coens barrels out whenever prestige threatens to choke their rebel spirit. Blood Simple begat Raising Arizona, Barton Fink begat The Hudsucker Proxy, and Fargo begat (hello, stoner heaven) The Big Lebowski. For me,
cast + crew
Director
Director
Harry Pfarrer
Linda Litzke
Chad Feldheimer
Osborne Cox
Katie Cox
Ted
CIA Officer
CIA Superior
Sandy Pfarrer
Krapotkin
Screenplay
Screenplay
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Associate Producer
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