Burn after reading / Focus Features presents, in association with Studio Canal and Relativity Media, a Working Title production ; produced, written and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 62102034 | Universal Studios Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Focus Features spotlight seriesPublisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2008]Description: 1 videodisc (1 hr., 36 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9786312578611
- 6312578615
- Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | COMEDY BURN AFT | Available | 33111010924526 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Joel and Ethan Coen's jet-black comedy Burn After Reading begins with CIA agent Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) losing his job. This prompts his long-suffering, unfaithful wife (Tilda Swinton) to consult a lawyer about divorcing him. Osborne decides to write a book about his exploits, but an early draft of his work ends up lost at a gym where it's found by the dim-witted Chad (Brad Pitt, and the plastic-surgery obsessed Linda (Frances McDormand). They decide to blackmail Osborne in order to help Linda pay for the numerous procedures she wants to undergo. Things grow even more complicated when Linda starts an affair with Harry (George Clooney), who also happens to be sleeping with Cox's wife. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
DVD; Region 1; NTSC; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, DVD-9, single sided.
In English or dubbed French with English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles.
George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, JK Simmons, Jeffrey DeMunn, Brad Pitt.
Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell.
Originally released in 2008 as motion picture.
Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains that it contains classified government information. Along with his fellow employee, Linda Litzke, he intends to use the disc to blackmail Osbourne. When blackmailing him fails, Linda decides to take the information to the Russian embassy. At the embassy, she hands the disc over to the Russians, promising that she will give them more information. Linda and Chad don't have any more information, so they decide to break into Cox's house. This brings about a series of events that no one foresees.
Special features: Finding the Burn; DC insiders run amuck; Welcome back, George.
MPAA rating: R; for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence.
Special features include: Finding the Burn; DC insiders run amuck; welcome back, George.