Barton Fink

Movie

1991

1h 57m

English

Comedy, Drama

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7.8

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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

Movie

1991

1h 57m

English

Comedy, Drama

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Watch on The Criterion Channel

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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7.8

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Cast

Barton Fink

Charlie Meadows

Audrey Taylor

Jack Lipnick

Ben Geisler

W.P. Mayhew

Lou Breeze

Chet

Garland Stanford

Det. Mastrionotti

Det. Deutsch

Derek

Poppy Carnahan

Richard St. Claire

Pete

Maitre D'

Stagehand

Clapper Boy

Referee

Wrestler

Geisler's Secretary

Sailor

USO Girl

Beauty

William Preston Robertson

Voice (voice)

Directed By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Written By: Joel Coen (Screenplay), Ethan Coen (Screenplay)

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CatyAlexandre says...

11 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...

7 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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Ibrakadabra says...

6 years ago

It could be a nightmare when you're stucked and rapeed and you don't know how to get out. But it's far more worse if you have no chance escaping because your fate is in someone else's hands. Hungarian title is translated as _Nightmare in Hollywood_ and I don't think any other title could be given back better what we see on screen.

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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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