"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.

Barton Fink is a 1991 American independent period psychological thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers.

Despising the film capital and everything it stands for, Barton Fink comes down with an acute case of writer's block. He is looked after by a secretary (Judy Davis) who has been acting as a ghost...

Barton Fink is rich in cinematic language communicating much more than just the words you hear the actors and actresses say. Set during a time when fascists powers were on the rise in parts of the world, the main protagonist is Barton Fink.

Amazon.com: Barton Fink (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, Jon Polito, Richard ...

Amazon.com: Barton Fink [Blu-ray]: Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub, John Turturro, John Mahoney, Judy Davis, John Goodman, Isabelle Townsend, Jack Denbo, Christopher ...

Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a playwright who while he's just released his first play on Broadway garnering good reviews, he doubts his own talent. He gets called to Hollywood to write screenplays, and accepts.

Barton Fink is a left-wing New York playwright, modeled on the Clifford Odets of “Waiting for Lefty,” who writes one proletarian hand-wringer in the late 1930s and then is summoned to Hollywood, where Jack Lipnick (Lerner), the vulgarian in charge of Capitol Pictures, pays him piles of money and assigns him to write a wrestling picture for Wallace Beery.

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