John Turturro
Barton Fink
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The film is influenced by works of several earlier directors, particularly Roman Polanski 's Repulsion (1965) and The Tenant (1976). Barton Fink had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1991. In a rare sweep, it won the Palme d'Or as well as awards for Best Director and Best Actor (Turturro).
Aug 21, 1991 · A playwright struggles with writer's block and the dark side of Hollywood in this Coen brothers' film. IMDb provides cast and crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more for this 1940s-set dark comedy.
- (129K)
- Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- 1991-08-21
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...
- (67)
- Joel Coen
- R
- John Turturro
A dark comedy about a playwright who struggles with writer's block and the dark side of Hollywood in 1941. He befriends a mysterious neighbor, a murder suspect, and a ghost writer, while his boss demands a wrestling movie script.
Aug 23, 1991 · A black comedy about a left-wing playwright who sells out to Hollywood and faces a nightmare of Nazism and horror. Read Roger Ebert's analysis of the Coen brothers' style, the cast, and the themes of this Palm d'Or winner.
Aug 21, 2021 · The 1991 film follows a New York playwright who moves to Los Angeles and faces artistic and personal challenges in the film industry. It is a dark comedy that mocks the clichés, hypocrisies and nightmares of Old Hollywood, with John Turturro and John Goodman in starring roles.
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New York intellectual Barton Fink comes to Hollywood in 1941 to write a screenplay, but he soon finds himself with a severe case of writer's block as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him from his task. 1,186 IMDb 7.6 1 h 56 min 1991. R. Comedy · Drama · Cerebral · Dark. Available to rent or buy.
