Barton Fink R

There’s only one thing stranger than what’s going on inside his head. What’s going on outside.
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 22, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1991
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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Major Awards:

Cannes 1991 - Best Actor: John Turturro
Cannes 1991 - Best Director: Joel Coen
Cannes 1991 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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Total Count: 58

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 45,291
5 stars out of 5 -- [A]s a dark-hearted love letter to golden-age Hollywood it's hard to beat....One of the brother's bleakest masterpieces.
Total Film
Aug 1, 2012
Rating: B -- Part "Eraserhead" and part "Naked Lunch," "Barton Fink" is like whitefish on sand. Full Review
ColeSmithey.com
Feb 14, 2017
This creepy satire is full of laughs and flaky twists, but by the end you may still be scratching your head. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Nov 6, 2007
Rating: 10/10 -- In their dark comic masterpiece "Bartin Fink," [The Coens] draw the line between artistic integrity and artistic smugness. Full Review
The Young Folks
Jan 7, 2019
...Partly hilarious, partly horrific, totally mesmerizing...
Rolling Stone
Aug 22, 1991
...Surreal and sometimes sublime...
USA Today
Aug 21, 1991
...The Coens share with Lynch an ability to find brilliant aural and tactile devices to suggest a world gone awry...
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 1992

Product Description:

BARTON FINK is the Coen brothers' apocalyptic masterpiece about the creative process. John Turturro stars as the title character, an idealistic young man with an ERASERHEAD-like do who believes that writing should be about the living truth, revealing the hopes, the dreams, the tragedies of the common man. When Hollywood comes calling for him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery, Fink suddenly finds himself in Los Angeles with a severe case of writer's block, unable to combine his deep-seated ethics with Hollywood's desire to just make a buck. Fast-talking mogul Jack Lipnick (a terrific Michael Lerner) sets Barton up at the Hotel Earle, where the writer meets up with Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), a traveling insurance salesman who is ready to fill Barton's head with tales of the common man--but Fink is too busy espousing his defense of the common man to actually listen to him. So Barton seeks to find the answers in W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), a Faulkneresque novelist who has sacrificed his morals for the B-pictures and the bottle. When the disillusioned Fink finds himself part of a murder investigation, all hell breaks loose. Joel and Ethan Coen's BARTON FINK is a multilayered, complex psychological study of the creative mind that is as frightening and bizarre as it is hysterically funny.

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  • UPC: 738329207397
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