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Burn After Reading is the third of four Coen brothers films with Clooney (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty and, later, Hail, Caesar! ), who acknowledged that he usually plays a fool in their movies: "I've done three films with them and they call it my trilogy of idiots."
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.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- 2008-09-12
Oct 20, 2008 · George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading. Film blog Movies. ... "Burn After Reading is a brilliant joke about a staple Hollywood genre," he writes. "It is a surreal satire about ...
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- IT MARKED JOEL AND ETHAN COEN'S THIRD COLLABORATION WITH GEORGE CLOONEY. In Burn After Reading, George Clooney plays married federal marshal Harry Pfarrer, who's having an affair with Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton), the wife of CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich).
- THE COENS WROTE THE SCREENPLAY FOR BURN AFTER READING AT THE SAME TIME THEY WERE WRITING NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. While the Coens' standard practice is to work on one project at a time, they made an exception with Burn After Reading.
- THEY PUT THE ACTORS AHEAD OF THE STORY. Burn After Reading features many of the Coens' usual players, and in some ways they were thinking about the actors they wanted to work with—and what sort of situations they could put them in—before the finer details of the story itself.
- THE ROLE OF OSBORNE COX WAS WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR JOHN MALKOVICH. Even though they had never worked with Malkovich before, the Coens wrote the lead role with the two-time Oscar nominee in mind.
Feb 3, 2024 · It doesn't get more shocking than that moment between George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. This one will put you in a state of shocking laughter. Collider
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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- George Clooney
As for Clooney, in one movie he's the improbably handsome, super-intelligent hero, and in the next, he's the forlorn doofus. You wouldn't believe what he's constructing in his basement. The Coens say that this film completes their "idiot trilogy" with Clooney, after "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) and "Intolerable Cruelty" (2003). Clooney ...
A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. CIA agent Osborne Cox decides to pen his memoirs and is fired from the agency. The disc containing the memoirs inadvertently gets left in a ladies locker room at a gym, where Linda and co-worker Chad, hatch a plan to sell its contents to the highest bidder. Comedy Suspense Thriller.
