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Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. [5] 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 ).
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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
Synopsis. Faced with a demotion at work due to a drinking problem, Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and resolves to write a memoir about his life and career.
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Faced with a demotion due to a drinking problem, Osborne Cox angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and decides to write a memoir. Upon telling his wife Katie, she surreptitiously files for divorce and continues an existing affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married U.S. Marshal with paranoid tendencies. At the instruction of her lawyer, Katie delivers a...
George Clooney as Harry PfarrerBrad Pitt as Chad FeldheimerBackground and writing
Working Title Films produced the film for Focus Features, which also has worldwide distribution rights. Burn After Reading was the first Coen brothers film not to use Roger Deakins as cinematographer since Miller's Crossing. Emmanuel Lubezki, four-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Sleepy Hollow and Children of Men, took over for Deakins, who had already committed to shooting Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road. Mary Zophres served as costume designer, marking her eighth consecutive m...
Filming
Principal photography took place around Brooklyn Heights, as the Coens wanted to stay in New York City to be with their families. Other scenes were filmed in Paramus, New Jersey, Westchester County, New York and Washington, D.C., particularly in the Georgetown neighborhood. Filming began on August 27, 2007, and was completed on October 30, 2007.John Malkovich, appearing in his first Coen brothers film, said of the shooting, "The Coens are very delightful: smart, funny, very specific about wha...
Festival run and press tour
The film opened the Venice Film Festivalin August 2008. The Coen brothers said idiocy was a major central theme of Burn After Reading; Joel said he and his brother have "a long history of writing parts for idiotic characters" and described Clooney and Pitt's characters as "dueling idiots." 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 m...
Box office
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $19.1 million from 2,651 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking number one at the box office.It went on to gross $60.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $103.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $163.7 million worldwide.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 78% based on 248 reviews, and an average rating of 6.90/10. The website's critical consensus states, "With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters." Metacriticassigned the film a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The Times, which gave the film four out of five stars, compared it...
Accolades
The National Board of Review named Burn After Reading in its list of the Top 10 Movies of 2008. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club named it the second-best film of 2008, Empire magazine named it the third-best film of 2008, and Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weeklynamed it the seventh-best film of 2008.
Burn After Reading was released on Region 1 DVD and Blu-ray discon December 21, 2008. The Region 2 version was released on February 9, 2009. The Blu-ray contains three bonus features, including behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.
Web site: Burn After Reading (15) . . September 1, 2008 . June 23, 2015.Web site: Carpenter. Cassie. Fire and ice queen. https://archive.today/20070803142124/http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003700448. dead. August...News: Coen Brothers Film To Open This Year's Venice Film Festival. CBSnews. April 28, 2008. April 28, 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081023004046/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/28/ap/...Web site: Burn After Reading. Golden Globes. February 23, 2022.- Emmanuel Lubezki
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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.
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...
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An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Who's Involved: John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. Release Date: Friday, September 12, 2008. R RESTRICTED MPA. pervasive language, some sexual content and violence.
