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A scriptwriter who becomes famous on Broadway is hired to write a wrestling movie... but he develops writer's block and has to enlist the help of friends...

Product Identifiers

ProducerEthan Coen

EAN5050582902631

eBay Product ID (ePID)114443126

Product Key Features

ActorJudy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, John Turturro, Jon Polito, John Goodman

Film/TV TitleBarton Fink

DirectorJoel Coen

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageBrazilian Portuguese\Czech\Dutch\French\German\Greek\Hungarian\Japanese\Korean\Mandarin\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Thai\Turkish

Run Time117 Mins

Release Year2012

FormatBlu-ray

FeaturesWith Subtitles

GenreComedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerCarter Burwell

Additional InformationBARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like hairdo who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood comes calling for him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery, Fink suddenly finds himself in Los Angeles with a severe case of writer's block, unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Hollywood's desire to just make a quick buck. Fast-talking mogul Jack Lipnick (a terrific Michael Lerner) sets Barton up at the Hotel Earle, where the writer meets up with Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a travelling insurance salesman who is ready to fill Barton's head with tales of the common man--but Fink is too busy espousing his defence of the common man to actually listen to him. So Barton seeks to find the answers in W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), a Faulkneresque novelist who has sacrificed his morals for the B-pictures and the bottle. When the disillusioned Fink finds himself part of a murder investigation, all hell breaks loose. Joel and Ethan Coen's BARTON FINK is a multilayered, complex psychological study of the creative mind that is as frightening and bizarre as it is hysterically funny.

ReviewsEmpire - BARTON FINK is the ultimate in intellectual ballast, and with him the Coens have created a genuinely believable and multi-faceted character, while giving us a thumping good story that never lets up in its humour, pathos and intrigue

ScreenwriterEthan Coen, Joel Coen

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleBarton Fink

Director of PhotographyRoger Deakins

Consumer AdviceContains strong language and violence