Burn After Reading
- Release Date:
- Sep. 12 (Nationwide)
- Run Time:
- 1 hr. 37 min.
- Rating:
- R for for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence
- Cast:
- George Clooney, John Malkovich ...
- Director:
- Ethan Coen ...
- Genre:
- Comedy
Quick Peek
At the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency in Arlington, Va., analyst Osborne Cox arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry. Elsewhere in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for extensive cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer. Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym's manager Ted Treffon pines for her even as she arranges dates via the Internet with other men. When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst's memoirs accidentally falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, "No good can come of this," events spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.
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User Reviews for Burn After Reading
11/17/2008 Posted by cindycarlton
One of the worst movies I have seen! Why would George Clooney and Brad Pitt make this movie? There was not a point to this story.
Pros: Nothing
Cons: Everything
11/16/2008 Posted by Tranzie
If you go see this movie, you will wait for a plot to develop. I'm still waiting. I wasn't bored or anything, but a real story would be nice next time.
Pros: Brad and George
Cons: No plot.
