Title

Barton Fink

Cast

John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Jon Polito, Lance Davis, Christopher Murney, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Portnow, Steve Buscemi

Director

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cinematographer

Editor

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Language

English

Video

Audio

Tags

Comedy, Drama, Thriller

1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.