Barton Fink

Barton Fink is a funny, strange and beautiful film directed by Joel Coen chronicling a successful New York playwright (John Turturro) in the 1940s who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then...nothing! Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie (John Goodman) helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink's life spins more and more out of control. Also starring Steve Buscemi.  

Director:

Joel Coen

Cast:

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