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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 05/20/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 55 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 34 Genres: Comedy Drama, Black Comedy, Showbiz Comedy

The title character, played by John Turturro, is a Broadway playwright, based on Clifford Odets, lured to Hollywood with the promise of untold riches by a boorish studio chieftain (played by Michael Lerner as a combination of Louis B. Mayer and Harry Cohn). Despising the film capital and everything it stands for, Barton Fink comes down with an acute case of writer's block. He is looked after by a secretary (Judy Davis) who has been acting as a ghost writer for an alcoholic screenwriter (John Mahoney, playing a character based on William Faulkner). Also keeping tabs on Fink is a garrulous traveling salesman (John Goodman), the most likeable, stable character in the picture. And then comes the plot twist to end all plot twists, plunging Barton Fink into a surreal nightmare that would make Hieronymus Bosch look like a house painter. Once more, Ethan and Joel Coen serve up a smorgasbord of quirkiness and kinkiness, where nothing is what it seems and nothing turns out as planned. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

John Turturro - Barton Fink
John Goodman - Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis - Audrey Taylor
Michael Lerner - Jack Lipnick
John Mahoney - W.P. Mayhew
Tony Shalhoub - Ben Geisler

Joel Coen's surrealist Cannes Film Festival winner Barton Fink comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo, while Spanish and French soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Mono. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include deleted scenes, trailers, and a still-photo gallery. Barton Fink is a film full of dark shadows and this disc has done a fabulous job of capturing the original image. This is a solid release from 20th Century Fox. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide