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Barton Fink

Barton Fink (1991)

Thriller, Comedy, Drama, Mystery | United States, UK

Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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Streaming

YouTube

07/12/2022

Rating: 7.6/10

User rating: 7.5/10
(13 votes)

SYNOPSIS

In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.

Actors

Voice: William Preston Robertson, Joe James, Frances McDormand

Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Producer: Ben Barenholtz, Ethan Coen

RUNTIME: 116 min

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