Burn After Reading
1hr 37min - Rated R
Directors
- Ethan Coen
- Joel Coen
Cast
- Brad Pitt
- Frances McDormand
- George Clooney
- John Malkovich
- Lenny Venito
- Richard Jenkins
- Tilda Swinton
Writers
- Ethan Coen
- Joel Coen
About This Movie
At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osborne Cox 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 is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer, 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 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. Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men. When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.
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User Comments and Reviews
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Burn After Reading
Movie: Comedy, Drama
Comment by: Mike Showalter
the usual coen brothers
A couple of dead bodies, which you laugh at. Not one, but two idiots, and a couple of fools. A very angry John Malkovich. Everyone is slightly off in some way, so if you identify with anyone you might want to seek professional help. Not one of their best, but still thoroughly enjoyable.
Burn After Reading
Movie: Comedy, Drama
Comment by: Lisa
loved this movie, I have never really been into dark humor, but this one is awesome. Thing is, my friend and I thought that Chad had shot himself. We were falling out of our seats thinking that he did until Clooney goes back upstairs and said that he had killed a spook.Chad was a moron and was never doing anything right and to shoot himself would have been a fantastic part of it. Was it just me? Or did anyone else get that?
Lisa Lloyd
Burn After Reading
Movie: Comedy, Drama
Comment by: patrick
Brad Pitt can be so funny, as long as he's not taking himself too seriously... in any case, it's about time someone made good use of his, habitually spastic arm movements www.kogmedia.com
Burn After Reading
Movie: Comedy, Drama
Comment by: Victoria
Lisa, I totally agree! I went and watched this movie with three of my girlfriends, and two of us thought he had shot himself, while the other two thought it was clooney who shot brad. ...i'm still convinced brad did it though....
Burn After Reading
Movie: Comedy, Drama
Comment by:
It is NOT a comedy. Two other couples got up and left before we did , we kept waiting for it to redeem itself...figured that was not going to happen in the last 15 minutes. It is a very dark and depressing movie that offered nothing humorous. Lots of sadistic irony which would have been fine if the movie had not been touted as a comedy.