The grand-prize winner at the 1991 Cannes festival, BARTON FINK is the fourth installment in the Coen Brothers' series of highly stylized homages to classical Hollywood. But like their earlier films, BARTON FINK is a
tour de force of cinematic technique that encases a quirky narrative of
little depth.
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is an earnest young New York playwright who hits it big with a Depression-era proletarian drama before being reluctantly seduced by a lucrative offer to go to Hollywood and write for the movies. Despite assurances that he will be given free reign by studio boss Jack
Lipnick (Michael Lerner), Barton is asked to write a wrestling p...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins