Barton Fink Movie Review 1991

This eerie comic nightmare comes laden with awards (including the Palme D'Or from Cannes) but only really works if you care about the time and place. Fink is a trendy New York playwright staying in a seedy Hollywood hotel in the 1940s, straining to write a simple B-movie script. Macabre events, both real and imagined, compound his writer's block. Superb set design from Dennis Gassner complements an unforgettable cast of grotesques.

Distribution

Critics' Choice Video & DVD, PO Box 749, Itasca, IL 60143, Toll-free: 800-993-6357, Email: vcatalog@ccvideo.com, URL: http://www.ccvideo.com

Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Filmmaking, L.A., Period Piece: 1940s, Writers

Screenplay

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast

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

Cinematography

Roger Deakins

Director

Joel Coen

Music

Carter Burwell

Producer

Circle Films

Awards

Cannes 1991: Actor (Turturro), Director (Coen), Film; L.A. Film Critics 1991: Cinematog., Support. Actor (Lerner); N.Y. Film Critics 1991: Cinematog., Support. Actress (Davis); Natl. Soc. Film Critics 1991: Cinematog.