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Burn After Reading

Release Date: Friday, September 12, 2008

An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.

Director: Joel Coen

Starring: George Clooney John Malkovich Brad Pitt Tilda Swinton

R Comedy 1 hr, 36 m

  • 4 / 5
43% 57%

An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find.

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A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen. CIA agent Osborne Cox decides to pen his memoirs and is fired from the agency. The disc containing the memoirs inadvertently gets left in a ladies locker room at a gym, where Linda and co-worker Chad, hatch a plan to sell its contents to the highest bidder.
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The film's director Joel Coen last directed The Tragedy of MacBeth and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The film's writer Joel Coen last wrote The Tragedy of MacBeth and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

Director
Joel Coen
Producer
Ethan Coen

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  • Shooting is scheduled to begin in August (5/25/07).

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Parent Rating
R Restricted for pervasive language, some sexual content and violence
Runtime
1 hr, 36 m
Tagline
Intelligence is relative.
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Language
English

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Burn After Reading was released in on Friday, September 12, 2008. There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including Righteous Kill, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys Together and The Women.

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