Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050582261219
Format: PAL
Label: Universal Pictures UK
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Pictures UK
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 31, 2005
Running Time: 112 minutes
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Theatrical Release Date: 1991

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
A darkly comic ride, this intense and original 1991 offering from the Coen brothers (Fargo, Blood Simple) gleefully attacks the Hollywood system and those who seek to sell out to it, portraying the writer's suffering as a loony vision of hell. John Turturro (Miller's Crossing, Jungle Fever) plays the title character, a pretentious left-wing writer from New York City who is brought to 1930s Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling movie for palooka actor Wallace Beery. Fink thinks the job is beneath him, but his desire for acceptance gets the better of him, and he suddenly finds himself holed up in a fleabag hotel in Los Angeles, where he is almost immediately afflicted with writer's block. Various distractions begin to enter his life, first in the form of a famous southern writer (John Mahoney) whom Fink idolises, and then his neighbour in the hotel, a seemingly amiable salesman played by John Goodman (Sea of Love, Raising Arizona). The writer turns out to be a self-loathing drunk whose secretary (Judy Davis) is the one actually doing the writing. And the neighbour, the working-class hero who Fink made his reputation writing about, may have a horrifying secret of his own. Equal parts social commentary and hilarious farce, and winner of the Best Picture, Actor, and Director prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, Barton Fink is a visionary and original comic masterpiece not to be missed. --Robert Lane




Rating: - Amusing but slow and no logic
This is a movie with no logic and no coherent story. It has some very amusing angles and scenes but also a lot of dark, annoying and strange scenes. Overall there is no real story. Borrow it from a friend. I bought it but I am not sure I will keep it. It's a trash can potentiel.

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Rating: - So disappointing
I am a real Coen Brothers fan with Lebowski and Oh Brother in my Top 10 (Fargo only just missed the cut) but this was poor. If you follow a career of Genius then you can be forgiven the odd miss fire and this is one of those. All the usual ingredients but it just didn't work.

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Rating: - A wrestling picture...
This marvellous surreal movie from the Coen brothers centers around Barton Fink (John Turturro), a successful New York playwright who is lured to Hollywood with the prospect of big money and stardom. On arrival though he gets writers block and is unable to produce the screenplay for the wrestling picture that Jack Lipnick requires.

Lipnick as played by Michael Lerber is the classic studio boss taken to the extreme. Both terrifying in his power and very funny. A truly mesmerising performance ... Read More

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Rating: - excellent... gets better with each viewing.
Watching "Barton Fink" will be a torture if you don't like Coen Bros and their unique style of filmmaking: ironic, surrealistic and allegorical. Winner of 3 prizes at Cannes including the Palme D'or in 1991, Barton Fink is no exception at all, even it is the most eccentric and enigmatic work in their filmography. Here, don't expect "Big Lebowski" or "O' Brother Where Art Thou" type of dark comedy or "Blood Simple" or "Fargo" type of thriller. This is PROFOUND and UNUSUAL kinda movie. Challenging all available ... Read More

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Rating: - Enjoyable Early Coen Brothers
Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers' fourth film, won the Best Director and Golden Palm awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Best Actor award for John Turturro. With an engaging script, great character performances by, among others, Turturro and Goodman, Barton Fink is funny and gripping in equal measure. Ethan Coen mused in an interview that this was "a buddy movie for the 1990s" [see www.coenbrothers.net/interviewbarton.html] but, like other films made by the Coen Brothers, Barton Fink cannot be ... Read More

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