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Mood:
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- Writer's LifeShowbizArtists and ShowbizCrimesMind and SoulSerial KillerPsychologicalMurder more...
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- DramaIndependentNeo NoirComedyPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century40s
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Place:
- CaliforniaHollywoodLos AngelesUSAHotel
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedEssentialCannes Festival WinnerPrestigious Awards
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- Dark Humor
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- Twists and TurnsSurreal
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- ProfanityViolent Content
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Barton Fink, 1991
English
USA, UK
Profile of Barton Fink
The mood of Barton Fink is clever, stylized, and captivating. The plot centers around the life of a writer, showbiz, and artists and showbiz. It features dark humor. Barton Fink is a drama, independent, and comedy movie. Stylistically, it is neo-noir, is surreal, and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is realistic. Barton Fink takes place, at least partly, in a hotel. The setting is Hollywood. It happens in the 20th century. Barton Fink is known for being a Cannes festival winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of Barton Fink
BARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like do who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood comes calling for him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery, Fink suddenly finds himself in Los Angeles with a severe case of writer's block, unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Hollywood's desire to just make a buck. Fast-talking mogul Jack Lipnick (a terrific Michael Lerner) sets Barton up at the Hotel Earle, where the writer meets up with Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a traveling insurance salesman who is ready to fill Barton's head with tales of the common man--but Fink is too busy espousing his defense of the common man to actually listen to him. So Barton seeks to find the answers in W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), a Faulkneresque novelist who has sacrificed his morals for the B-pictures and the bottle. When the disillusioned Fink finds himself part of a murder investigation, all hell breaks loose. Joel and Ethan Coen's BARTON FINK is a multilayered, complex psychological study of the creative mind that is as frightening and bizarre as it is hysterically funny.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, UK |
| Release date: | 21 August 1991 |
| Runtime: | 116 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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