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Burn After Reading

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Burn After Reading
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R,1hr 35min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
September 12, 2008
Director:
Joel Coen
Distributor:
Focus Features
Starring:
George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt  ...more
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Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen's jet-black comedy Burn After Reading begins with CIA agent Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) losing his job. This prompts his long-suffering, unfaithful wife (Tilda Swinton) to consult a lawyer about divorcing him. Osborne decides to write a book about his exploits, but an early draft of his work ends up lost at a gym where it's found by the dim-witted Chad (Brad Pitt, and the plastic-surgery obsessed Linda (Frances McDormand). They decide to blackmail Osborne in order to help Linda ... Full Synopsis
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Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Because it's a Coen brothers film before it's anything else, this is about as dark and nihilistic as comedies are allowed to get before the laughter dies bitterly on your lips. Full Review
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63
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out of 100
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Brad Pitt in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
Frances McDormand, left, and Brad Pitt in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
George Clooney, left, and Frances McDormand in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
George Clooney in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
John Malkovich in "Burn After Reading" (Focus Features)
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