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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025195049085
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: December 21, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 236
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Product Description:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/19/2008 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
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. 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. Little does Cox know his wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton, riffing on her Michael Clayton character), is seeing married federal marshal Harry (George Clooney, Swinton's Clayton co-star, playing off his Syriana role). To get back at the Agency, Cox works on his memoirs. Through a twist of fate, fitness club workers Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt in a pompadour that recalls Johnny Suede) find the disc and try to wrangle a "Samaratin tax" out of the surly alcoholic. An avid Internet dater, Linda plans to use the money for plastic surgery, oblivious that her manager, Ted (The Visitor's Richard Jenkins), likes her just the way she is. Though it sounds like a Beltway remake of The Big Lebowski, the Coen entry it most closely resembles, this time the brothers concentrate their energies on the myriad insecurities endemic to the mid-life crisis--with the exception of Chad, who's too dense to share such concerns, leading to the funniest performance of Pitt's career. If Lebowski represented the Coen's unique approach to film noir, Burn sees them putting their irresistibly absurdist stamp on paranoid thrillers from Enemy of the State to The Bourne Identity. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Average Rating: 
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i was a little disappointed with the movie. the actors in the movie where good but, it had a weak story line.
Rating:  -
All star cast + great directors = terrible movie.....after watching this movie i was very dissapointed,i'm kinda shocked they were able to bring in so many good actors with such a bad script. Not funny, movie goes nowhere, huge waste of your time and money. Coen Brothers worst movie by far!
Rating:  -
I thought this movie was hilarous the jokes were fast and funny. People who didn't like this movie don't really no people in real life like these characters. I worked at a gym for a while and the Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins these characters they have created really exist. Especially Brad Pitt's character the trainer clapping and pushing his clients too far. Tilda Swinton playing a cold harded b@%$* (female dog) those people exist as well. People who didn't like remeber one ... Read More
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I've got every movie the Coens have done, back to and including "Blood Simple", so I really wanted to like this movie. Maybe it'll grow on me, but at first sight, it's not all that interesting. Ultimately, it's a bunch of stupid, flawed, people doing stupid things, and getting their just deserts. None of the characters are particularly likable. The only halfway decent character in the movie is Osborne Cox, and he's getting ready to publish a tell-all about his time in Government. The others are ... Read More
Rating:  -
Many of the Amazon reviewers of "Burn After Reading" fail to understand, or they resent, if only dimly understood, the point of all Coen Brothers films: to provide an entertainment in which the audience can feel comfortably superior to characters that are in over their heads. All the stylistic and character aspects that many reviewers construe as flaws are in fact the entire point of watching a Coen Brothers film. Where else, other than as a Amazon film reviewer, can one feel so smugly superior and amused ... Read More
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