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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.A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 18 wins & 29 nominations total
Meagen Fay
- Poppy Carnahan
- (as Megan Faye)
- Directors
- Joel Coen
- Ethan Coen(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaThe first film to win all three major awards (Palme D'or, Best Director, and Best Actor) at the Cannes Film Festival. Also, it was unanimously chosen for the Palme D'or.
- GoofsBriefly visible at the top of the screen when Detective Mastrionotti introduces himself to Barton (visible in Kino Video's Blu-ray Disc which is in the 1.66:1 aspect ratio, may not be visible in other versions).
- Quotes
Charlie Meadows: Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo appears over silence; the "fanfare" is not played.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Clock (2010)
- SoundtracksFor Sentimental Reasons
by Edward Heyman, Al Sherman and Abner Silver
Licenced with Permission the Successors of Marlo Music Corporation (ASCAP)
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Hell-ywood
"Barton Fink" is, in my opinion, probably the Coen brothers' weirdest movie ever. Portraying the playwright title character (John Turturro) getting called to LA in 1941 to write a movie script and experiencing several strange things while suffering writer's block, they let out all the stops here. I should identify that although we usually expect unusual things from the Coen brothers, this is beyond bizarre. Of course, it is very likely that they're just showing how hellish Hollywood is (how many movies have shown that?). But that bug, plus Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), plus the picture on the wall - and of course the end scene - all add up to something really far out. What does it all add up to? I don't know, but the movie is worth seeing. Just be forewarned, this is not really an "easy" movie (well duh, it's a Coen brothers movie). Also starring Michael Lerner, Judy Davis, John Mahoney, Steve Buscemi and Tony Shalhoub.
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- lee_eisenberg
- May 24, 2006
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Бартон Фінк
- Filming locations
- The Wiltern - 3790 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA(Hotel Earle - lobby)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,153,939
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $268,561
- Aug 25, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $6,153,939
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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