John Turturro
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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).
- $9 million
- Carter Burwell
- Ethan Coen
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.
- (127K)
- 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...
- (2.6K)
- Joel Coen
- R
- John Turturro
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 Hollywood to write scripts for eccentric Jack Lipnick's Capitol Pictures.
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 Walla...
Aug 21, 2021 · By David Fear. August 21, 2021. John Turturro in 'Barton Fink.' ©20thCentFox/Everett Collection. “It’s strange, but some movies present themselves almost entirely in your head.”— Joel Coen....
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Aug 21, 1991 · There is no doubt that it is about the perils of the mind for someone as impressionable as Barton Fink (John Turturro). Barton is a pious, prissy New York playwright of very funny, unredeemed...
