Barton Fink
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- Release Date
- August 1, 1991
- Director
- Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
- Cast
- John Turturro , John Goodman , Judy Davis , Michael Lerner , John Mahoney , Tony Shalhoub
- Runtime
- 116
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Joel Coen , Ethan Coen
- Tagline
- There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head. What's going on outside.
Summary
New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block when his studio boss orders the serious-minded Barton to write a low budget wrestling movie. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
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