# Barton Fink (1991)

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**Runtime**: 117 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
**Written by**: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
**Starring**: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub

> *There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head... What's going on outside.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Typewriter clacking on a hotel desk in 1940s Los Angeles. A playwright's cramped room overlooks a seedy courtyard. This film is quintessential Coen brothers satire.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, surreal

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