Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading

type

Movie

Current Status

In Season

mpaa

R

runtime

96 minutes

Wide Release Date

09/12/08

performer

George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton

director

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

distributor

Focus Features

author

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

genre

Mystery and Thriller, Comedy

Brad Pitt sure looks funny in that bleached, skunkstripe hairdo. But like most jokes in Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers’ convoluted farce about a pair of gym buddies (Pitt and Frances McDormand) who mistake an ex?CIA analyst’s (John Malkovich) memoirs for top secret intelligence, the doofus ‘do gets old, fast. EXTRAS Three by-the-numbers featurettes offer riffs on the plot (George Clooney: ”It’s a comedy…about shockingly dumb people”) and — what else? — Pitt’s hair. C