Barton Fink

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The Resource Barton Fink

Statement of responsibility: 20th Century Fox ; Circle Films presents a Ted and Jim Pedas, Bill Durkin, Ben Barenholtz production ; directed by Joel Coen ; produced by Ethan Coen ; written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen ; director of photography, Roger Deakins

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Summary: Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then ... nothing. Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink's life spins more and more out of control

Credits note: Co-producer, Graham Place ; production designer, Dennis Gassner ; costume designer, Richard Hornung ; music composed by Carter Burwell ; edited by Roderick Jaynes ; associate editor, Michael Berenbaum ; supervising sound editor, Skip Lievsay ; dialogue supervisor, Philip Stockton ; casting by Donna Isaacson & John Lyons

Language note: English stereo; English, French or Spanish stereo (container states mono); Optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned

PerformerNote: 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)

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