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 Burn After Reading, a comedy thriller from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski), world-premiered as the opening-night film of the 2008 Venice International Film Festival.
At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.
Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym¹s manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men.
When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst¹s memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, ³No good can come of this,² events spiral out of everyone¹s and anyone¹s control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.
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from Focus Features
Directed by
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Starring
George Clooney (Harry Pfarrer)
Frances McDormand (Linda Litzke)
Brad Pitt (Chad Feldheimer)
John Malkovich (Osborne Cox)
Tilda Swinton (Katie Cox)
Richard Jenkins (Ted Treffon)
David Rasche (CIA Officer)
J.K. Simmons (CIA Superior)
Olek Krupa (Krapotkin)
Michael Countryman (Alan)
Kevin Sussman (Divorce Lawyer)
J.R. Horne (Divorce Lawyer)
Hamilton Clancy (Peck)
Armand Schultz (Olson)
Pun Bandhu (Party Guest #1)
Karla Mosley (Party Guest #2)
Jeffrey DeMunn (Cosmetic Surgeon)
Richard Poe (Stretching Gym Patron)
Carmen M. Herlihy (Prospective Gym Customer)
Raul Aranas (Manolo)
Judy Frank (Lawyer's Secretary)
Sándor Técsy (Russian Embassy Escort)
Yury Tsykun (Senior Russian Embassy Man)
Brian O'Neill (Hal)
Robert Prescott (Process Server)
Matt Walton (Morning Show Host)
Lori Hammel (Morning Show Hostess)
Crystal Bock (PR Woman)
Patrick Boll (Sandy's Man)
Logan Kulick (Four-Year-Old Patient)
Dermot Mulroney (Star of "Coming Up Daisy")
Written by
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Rated: 
(for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence) |
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