![]() ![]() ![]() Mayhem ensues when a) they try and get a reward for finding and returning the data, b) Linda starts hooking up with Harry, and c) the Russian Embassy and the CIA get involved. Although very funny, it is unexpectedly sad as well, a. Enter Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) and Linda Litzke ( Frances McDormand), two instructors at a local gym that find the data filled disc and think it is classified material. It has this large ensemble cast that go to extreme length to mock and amaze through sheer stupidity, all for our amusement, and they certainly do not fail. Burn After Reading may be a comedy, but it is an exceptionally dark one, in which damaged, lonely souls collide but rarely make real contact. Cstar rediffusera ce soir Burn After Reading, une comdie noire des frres Coen porte par un casting en grande forme : George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt ou encore. Its a very well written dark comedy with brilliant performances, particularly Brad Pitt as an extremely camp gym worker, and retied CIA analyst John Malkovich. Inspired by Stansfield Turner's Burn Before Reading, the comically convoluted plot clicks into gear when the CIA gives analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) the boot. Its an approach at showing just how overreacting individuals can be, but also just how bland or too seriously many Hollywood movies take themselves surrounding this incident, basically a parody. After the dark brilliance of No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading may seem like a trifle, but few filmmakers elevate the trivial to art quite like Joel and Ethan Coen. George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins and Brad Pitt head up the stellar cast of quirky characters whose screwball lives wind up intertwined in a bizarre plot full of dark and comical turns. ![]() When a disc containing some of the CIAs most revealing secrets goes missing, it ends up in the gym of the most bumbling, simple minded individuals, who attempt blackmail but get in too far over their heads. When a disc containing some of the CIAs most revealing secrets goes missing, it ends up in the gym of the most It's deadpan comedy at its best, and who better to deliver it than Joel and Ethan Cohen, along with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand and the fantastic John Malkovich. It's deadpan comedy at its best, and who better to deliver it than Joel and Ethan Cohen, along with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand and the fantastic John Malkovich. ![]()
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