Burn After Reading

2008 · Movie · comedy film, drama film, crime film, crime drama film, crime comedy film, comedy drama, thriller film, crime thriller film, black comedy film, spy comedy film, spy film

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

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Synopsis

Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy espionage film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox, whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees. When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they embark on 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.

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Type: Movie
Release date: August 27, 2008
Genres: comedy film, drama film, crime film, crime drama film, crime comedy film, comedy drama, thriller film, crime thriller film, black comedy film, spy comedy film, spy film
Created by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Runtime: 96 min
Countries: France, United States, United Kingdom