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Barton Fink

1991

Joel Coen

John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner ...

7.3

26,371

Drama In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A black comedy in the tradition of David Lynch, Luis Bunuel and the Coens themselves (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A fine dark comedy of flamboyant style and immense though seemingly effortless technique."
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"One of the year's best and most intriguing films. Though it defies genre, it seems to work best as a tart self-portrait, a screwball film noir that expresses the Coens' own alienation from Hollywood"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A comic nightmare that will stir your imagination like no film in years."

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