Barton Fink

Aug 1, 1991

1h 57m

★ 7.5

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

Overview

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Working Title Films

Circle Films

Barton Fink Trailers

Cast

Barton Fink

John Turturro

Charlie Meadows

John Goodman

Audrey Taylor

Judy Davis

Jack Lipnick

Michael Lerner

W.P. Mayhew

John Mahoney

Ben Geisler

Tony Shalhoub

Lou Breeze

Jon Polito

Chet

Steve Buscemi

Garland Stanford

David Warrilow

Detective Mastrionotti

Richard Portnow

Detective Deutsch

Christopher Murney

Derek

I.M. Hobson

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with his conditions at home and at the theater suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes on the Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a poor settlement to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses everyone in the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reason for the actor’s odd behavior and to find out when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that he only knows what he does not want! The young director, who had started working on filming a portrait of the actor prior, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

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