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Sep 11, 2008 · The Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors -- yes, even Brad Pitt, as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness instructor.
Sep 12, 2008 · When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) falls into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), the two gym employees see a chance...
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Sep 12, 2008 · Burn After Reading: Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich. A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. In setting up a spy thriller that, given the idiocy of its characters, just-so-happens to proceed like a comedy, the...
Sep 12, 2008 · Burn After Reading may be a comedy, but it is an exceptionally dark one, in which damaged, lonely souls collide but rarely make real contact. Although very funny, it is unexpectedly sad as...
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst , Osborne Cox ( John Malkovich ), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees ( Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt ).
Sep 12, 2008 · An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. (Focus Features)
Aug 26, 2008 · ‘Burn After Reading’: Film Review. The Coen brothers have taken some of cinema's top and most expensive actors and chucked them into looney-tunes roles in a thriller set in and about Washington.
May 25, 2007 · Burn After Reading Review. After CIA putz Ozzie Cox (Malkovich) quits over a drink issue, his shocking memoirs fall into the hands of lovelorn gym instructor Linda Litzke (McDormand) and...
Movie Review. Joel and Ethan Coen have made a career of crafting quirky, dark films that blend equal parts absurdity and shock value. And seemingly unaffected by the fact that their No Country for Old Men won a Best Picture Oscar last year, they’ve done so again with Burn After Reading— a movie whose characters put the odd in oddball.
