Video Views Pick: Burn After Reading

By Art Slavin
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/video_views_pick_burn_after_reading_brad_pitt_coen_brothers_20081223/
The Coen brothers' Burn After Reading is this week's Video Views pick. CIA analyst Oswald Cox (John Malkovich) is a very angry man. He has just been demoted and his wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), doesn’t listen to anything he says. She’s too busy with other things, like her affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married man who also surfs the Internet for women to hook up with. Having quit his job, Oswald is now writing his memoirs, a computer disc of which is found by the cleaning man at Hardbodies Fitness Center. Two of the trainers there, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), think the disc contains top secret information and see an opportunity for blackmail.