Burn after reading

Resource Information

The work Burn after reading represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Burn after reading

Statement of responsibility

Focus Features presents in association with Relativity Media ; Mike Zoss Productions ; Studio Canal ; Working Title Films ; produced by Tim Bevan ... [et al.] ; written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen ; directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Creator

• Burn after reading (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Relativity Media
• Studio Canal
• Clooney, George
• Coen, Ethan
• Coen, Joel
• Malkovich, John
• McDormand, Frances
• Pitt, Brad, 1963-
• Swinton, Tilda
• Focus Features

Subject

• Adultery -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Crime films
• Extortion -- Drama
• Feature films
• Optical storage devices -- Drama
• Personal trainers -- Drama
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Crime films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Comedy films

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

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 forsees

Member of

• Focus Features spotlight series

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki ; editor, Roderick Jaynes ; music, Carter Burwell

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

In English, with French track ; with French and Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned (SDH: subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing)

PerformerNote

George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt

Runtime

96

Series statement

Focus Features spotlight series

Technique

live action