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Overview
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Release Date:
21 August 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
Between Heaven and Hell There's Always Hollywood! more
Plot:
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture...
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Writer's Block
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars.
Another 13 wins
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2 nominations
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(39 articles)
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A Serious Man Review
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A Serious Man Review
(From Collider.com. 15 October 2009, 8:57 PM, PDT)
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Classic dark comedy spoofs Hollywood hacks, literati alike
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Turturro | ... | Barton Fink |
 | John Goodman | ... | Charlie Meadows |
 | Judy Davis | ... | Audrey Taylor |
 | Michael Lerner | ... | Jack Lipnick |
 | John Mahoney | ... | W.P. Mayhew |
 | Tony Shalhoub | ... | Ben Geisler |
 | Jon Polito | ... | Lou Breeze |
 | Steve Buscemi | ... | Chet |
 | David Warrilow | ... | Garland Stanford |
 | Richard Portnow | ... | Detective Mastrionotti |
| Christopher Murney | ... | Detective Deutsch |
| I.M. Hobson | ... | Derek |
 | Meagen Fay | ... | Poppy Carnahan (as Megan Faye) |
 | Lance Davis | ... | Richard St. Claire |
| Harry Bugin | ... | Pete |
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Rated R for language and some scenes of violence.
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116 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
France:U |
Brazil:16 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:16 (bw) |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #31095) |
Iceland:12
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John Turturro plays the title role. In Miller's Crossing (1990) (also directed by Joel Coen), Turturro played a character who met a man at an apartment building called "The Barton Arms".
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Goofs:
Continuity: The hand that Chet uses to stop the bell ringing.
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Quotes:
Geisler:
Mayhew, some help, the guy's a souse!
Barton: He's a great writer...
Geisler: A great souse!
Barton: You don't understand...
Geisler: Souse!
Barton: He's in pain, because he can't write...
Geisler: Souse! Souse! Can't write? He manages to write his name on the back of his paycheck every week!
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Barton: He's a great writer...
Geisler: A great souse!
Barton: You don't understand...
Geisler: Souse!
Barton: He's in pain, because he can't write...
Geisler: Souse! Souse! Can't write? He manages to write his name on the back of his paycheck every week!
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Soundtrack:
DOWN SOUTH CAMP MEETING
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This is a satire which really eviscerates its main character, nebbish Barton Fink, a semi-successful, very Jewish New York playwright who comes to Hollywood to make his dreams come true, which in his case is definately not writing the next Wallace Beery wrestling picture. There are just too many funny things in this movie to mention them all, so I won't mention any. But this is a movie that is going to stand up to the test of time; it may be the Coen brothers' best movie, because it is both dead funny and dead serious.
Turturro gives the performance of a lifetime as Barton, and Goodman proved with this movie that he was a first class acting talent (what made the Coens think of him in this role, anyway? surely a mark of genius). Davis also shows herself off extremely well, in one of this underrated actresses finest roles.
There is, simply put, no better satire of Hollywood, and none that I can think of that so successfully manages to also spoof the pretentions of those who despise it.