Burn After Reading

5/22/2018

The Coen brothers really seemed to enjoy making this dark comedy. Great ensemble cast . It really is just good solid entertainment and some great cynicism.

12/26/2022

**The demolition of classic espionage** After being demoted due to his alcohol problems, Osbourne Cox, a veteran CIA analyst, decides to leave the agency and write his memoirs. The CD containing the draft of his manuscript accidentally ends up on the locker room floor of his local gym, where it is found by Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, two fitness center employees who are a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Convinced they have stumbled upon top-secret state secrets, the pair decides to blackmail Cox to fund the multiple plastic surgeries Linda so desperately craves. Consequently, a monumental mess ensues. Ambition and absolute incompetence collide head-on with an implacable federal government security coordinator—a fourth character in discord who is, in turn, trapped in his own web