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Barton Fink

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1991
1h 57m
R
English
Comedy, Drama
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7.8
Critic Score: 
79
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A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Barton Fink

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1991
1h 57m
English
Comedy, Drama
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A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
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Cast

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John Turturro
Barton Fink
John Goodman
Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis
Audrey Taylor
Michael Lerner
Jack Lipnick
Tony Shalhoub
Ben Geisler
John Mahoney
W.P. Mayhew
Jon Polito
Lou Breeze
Steve Buscemi
David Warrilow
Garland Stanford
Richard Portnow
Det. Mastrionotti
Christopher Murney
Det. Deutsch
IM Hobson
Meagen Fay
Poppy Carnahan
Lance Davis
Richard St. Claire
Harry Bugin
Anthony Gordon
Jack Denbo
Stagehand
Max Grodnchik
Clapper Boy
Robert Beecher
Darwyn Swalve
Gayle Vance
Geisler's Secretary
Johnny Judkins
Jana Marie Hupp
Isabelle Townsend
William Preston Robertson
Directed By: Joel Coen
Written By: Ethan Coen (Screenplay), Joel Coen (Screenplay)

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CatyAlexandre says...
12 years ago
Another great piece of cinematic art delivered by the Coens Brothers. This is the kind of movie that can have multiple possibilities of interpretation because of the amount of symbolisms that it contains. It's great when I films keeps you thinking about what really happened and I took my own conclusion of the story but I believe that many others could have taken a different idea so I would be interested to hear what your interpretations might be... Did all of those things really happened to Barton? What did that last scene wanted to mean? Charlie really were a murderer? John Turturro and John Goodman performances were great!
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manicure says...
3 years ago
I end up finding different meanings every time I watch “Barton Fink”, but there’s no doubt it’s above all about the inside of the head of a phony, pretentious, yet pathetically naive playwright as he stumbles into a writer’s block on his first job in Hollywood. The Hotel Earle seems to act as the unsettling theatre of the mind, where the character’s paranoia and delusions come to life. Nothing seems to make sense as you watch, but then you find yourself having spent a few hours thinking back at all symbolisms and possible interpretations.
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The_Argentinian says...
8 months ago
I thought it was going to be a movie about Hollywood ala Altman's The Player. The murder and everything that happened after threw me off. Might need to rewatch it to 'get it'.
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dhaig2004 says...
a month ago
Loved the dense symbolism and themes in this. Hollywood is portrayed as a hell where art and creativity go to die, first as Barton is stuck in his writer’s block, then as he is forced to continually labor under his contract with no hope of putting anything meaningful on the screen. Barton is hypocritical in his dream of creating art for the common man, as he interrupts “common man” Charlie whenever he tries to talk about himself. The burning hotel scene is completely left-field, but also a thematically fitting climax. Probably my favorite Coen Brothers movie I’ve seen so far.
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AdamMorgan
8/10  6 years ago
If you have been following my move reviews you have probably noticed that I am partial towards movies that don't end when the movie ends. The Coen Brothers seems to be great at making these kinds of movies - No Country For Old Men is a recent example of such a movie. It seems that the best attem More
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moonkodi
5/10  8 years ago
It's OK. Looks good etc. Starts off fine. After a while Fink just seems another writer who can't write stereotype. Pacing around. Ranting about himself as a writer. Struggling to write a B movie. A B movie? If his ego was that big and his thoughts that strong he'd never have took the opp More
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