Burn After Reading | |
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Directed by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
Written by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
Produced by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki |
Edited by | Roderick Jaynes[a] |
Music by | Carter Burwell |
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Distributed by | Focus Features (United States) Universal Pictures (United Kingdom, Ireland and Benelux) StudioCanal (France)[2] |
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Running time | 96 minutes[3] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $37 million[2] |
Box office | $163.7 million[2] |
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.[5] It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt). When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they undergo a series of misadventures in an attempt to profit from their find. The film also stars George Clooney as a womanizing U.S. Marshal; Tilda Swinton as Katie Cox, the wife of Osborne Cox; Richard Jenkins as the gym manager; and J. K. Simmons as a CIA supervisor.
The film premiered on August 27, 2008, at the Venice Film Festival.[6] It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2008. It performed well at the box office, grossing over $163 million from its $37 million budget.[2] Critical response was mostly positive, and the film received nominations at both the Golden Globes[7] and British Academy Film Awards.[8]
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