Barton Fink

Comedy, Drama

Steve Buscemi	Chet
Judy Davis	Audrey Taylor
John Goodman	Charlie Meadows
Michael Lerner	Jack Lipnick
John Mahoney	W.P. Mayhew
Jon Polito	Lou Breeze
John Turturro	Barton Fink
Tony Shalhoub	Ben Geisler
David Warrilow	Garland Stanford
Richard Portnow	Detective Mastrionotti

Réalisateur	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Producteur	Ethan Coen; Ben Barenholtz
Auteur	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Musicien	Carter Burwell

Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a successful Broadway playwright who relocates to California to work for a Hollywood studio boss, Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner). Holed up in a fleabag Hollywood hotel with a severe case of writer's block, Barton passes his time by being fascinated with his neighbor Charlie Meadows (John Goodman) as an example of the everyday common man he is struggling to write about. Struggling to shake his writer's block, Barton seeks out the advice of another screenwriter, Bill Mayhew (John Mahoney). He finds out the Mayhew's works are actually ghost-written by his wife Audrey (Judy Davis) with whom Barton begins an affair. Barton awakes one morning to find Audrey dead in bed next to him. Barton seeks out Charlie to help him out of trouble and Charlie agrees telling Barton to get out of town and giving him a mysterious box. Barton's writer's block abates and he finishes his screenplay. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Barton is wanted by the police who tell him Charlie is a wanted serial killer.