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Burn After Reading
| Burn After Reading | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| Written by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| Produced by | Joel Coen Ethan Coen |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| Edited by | Roderick Jaynes[a] |
| Music by | Carter Burwell |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Focus Features (International) Universal Pictures (United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Benelux and Spain) StudioCanal (France)[2] |
Release dates |
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Running time | 96 minutes[3] |
| Countries | |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $37 million[2] |
| Box office | $163.7 million[2] |
Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.[5] It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt). When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they undergo 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.
The film premiered on August 27, 2008, at the Venice Film Festival.[6] It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2008. It performed well at the box office, grossing over $163 million from its $37 million budget.[2] Critical response was mostly positive, and the film received nominations at both the Golden Globes[7] and British Academy Film Awards.[8]
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- ^ a b c "Burn After Reading (2008)". BFI. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
- ^ Carpenter, Cassie (January 23, 2008). "Fire and ice queen". Backstage. Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
- ^ "Coen Brothers Film To Open This Year's Venice Film Festival". CBSnews. April 28, 2008. Archived from the original on October 23, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ "Burn After Reading". Golden Globes. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
- ^ "BAFTA Awards 2009". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
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