Burn After Reading [Blu-ray]

When the CIA gives analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) the boot. Little does Cox know his wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton, riffing on her Michael Clayton character), is seeing married federal marshal Harry (George Clooney, Swinton's Clayton co-star, playing off his Syriana role). To get back at the Agency, Cox works on his memoirs. Through a twist of fate, fitness club workers Linda (Frances McDormand) and Chad (Brad Pitt in a pompadour that recalls Johnny Suede) find the disc and try to wrangle a "Samaratin tax" out of the surly alcoholic. An avid Internet dater, Linda plans to use the money for plastic surgery, oblivious that her manager, Ted (The Visitor's Richard Jenkins), likes her just the way she is. Though it sounds like a Beltway remake of The Big Lebowski, the Coen entry it most closely resembles, this time the brothers concentrate their energies on the myriad insecurities endemic to the mid-life crisis--with the exception of Chad, who's too dense to share such concerns, leading to the funniest performance of Pitt's career.

• Actors: J.K. Simmons, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton
• Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• Format: Anamorphic, PAL
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 2
• Number of discs: 1
• Classification: 15
• Studio: Universal Pictures UK 
• Run Time: 96 minutes

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