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It's a Coen brothers movie. So it's not that good. They just have a cult following that loves them. It was #49 at the domestic box office in 2008 with $60 million. So it was not popular.
With Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers have crafted another clever comedy/thriller with an outlandish plot and memorable characters. Read Critics Reviews
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The Coen brothers’ “Burn After Reading” is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors — yes, even Brad Pitt , as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness instructor.
Oct 16, 2008 · Burn After Reading is the goofy fraternal twin of No Country: a black comedy that explores a humorous but highly contrived confluence of the Washington D.C. intelligence community and a group of adulterers, made from a script that the Coen brothers wrote simultaneously while pounding out their more sculpted and serious Oscar winner. Osbourne ...
Burn After Reading was the first Coen brothers film not to use Roger Deakins as cinematographer since Miller's Crossing. Emmanuel Lubezki, four-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer of Sleepy Hollow and Children of Men, took over for Deakins, [10] who had already committed to shooting Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road. [11]
Burn After Reading is probably the most underrated Coen Brothers movie. It’s cast is stellar featuring Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Brad PittJohn Malchovich and more. It’s very funny and clever but does have parts that are quite sad and very violent ones as well.
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Oct 17, 2008 · Classification: 15. Director: Joel & Ethan Coen. User Rating: (2 votes) The Coen Brothers’ new movie is an almost perverse about-face in the wake of their Oscar-winning, weighty adaptation of No Country for Old Men, released just nine months ago in the UK.
