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Barton Fink - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

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Directed by: 
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Screenplay by: 
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Produced by: 
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Release year: 
1991
Country: 
United States of America
United Kingdom
Runtime: 
116min
Genre: 
Indie film
Black comedy
Thriller
Mystery
Comedy-drama
Comedy
Psychological thriller
Drama
Music by: 
Carter Burwell
Subjects: 
Filmmaking
Tagline: 
There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head. What's going on outside.
Plot: 
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. 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.
Cast: 
John Turturro
as
Barton Fink
John Goodman
as
Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis
as
Audrey Taylor
Jon Polito
as
Lou Breeze
Steve Buscemi
as
Chet
John Mahoney
as
W.P. Mayhew
Michael Lerner
as
Jack Lipnick
Christopher Murney
as
Detective Deutsch
Tony Shalhoub
as
Ben Geisler
Barry Sonnenfeld
(
Page Calling for Barton Fin
)
Richard Portnow
as
Detective Mastrionotti
Meagen Fay
as
Poppy Carnahan
Frances McDormand
as
Stage Actress
Harry Bugin
as
Pete
I.M. Hobson
as
Derek
Lance Davis
as
Richard St. Claire

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