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Barton Fink is a 1991 American period black comedy psychological thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood , and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance ...
Aug 21, 1991 · Barton Fink: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner. A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
- (129K)
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- 1991-08-21
Summaries. A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. In the wake of his early but undeniable theatrical success in Broadway, the idealistic author of the proletariat and self-pitying 1940s New York playwright, Barton Fink, finds himself lured to dazzling ...
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90% Tomatometer 67 Reviews 89% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He...
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- Joel Coen
- R
- John Turturro
Aug 21, 2021 · TV & Movies. ‘Barton Fink’ at 30: Why the Coen Brothers’ Movie Is a Masterpiece. How the Coen brothers took a jab at Old Hollywood to get out of a potential writers' block and produced one of...
- David Fear
Feb 18, 2023 · Referencing the themes of 1941's Sullivan's Travels, the ending of Barton Fink showed that life cannot be analyzed, only lived. Barton's biggest problem was that life tried to come to him, but he was too selfish to accept it unless it conformed to his vision.
Aug 23, 1991 · Barton Fink is a left-wing New York playwright, modeled on the Clifford Odets of “Waiting for Lefty,” who writes one proletarian hand-wringer in the late 1930s and then is summoned to Hollywood, where Jack Lipnick (Lerner), the vulgarian in charge of Capitol Pictures, pays him piles of money and assigns him to write a wrestling picture for ...
