Description:In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distractsIn 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial insurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.... (more)(less)
"2/25/13
I should have known that this movie, being a Coen brothers picture, would be...weird. Hell, the poster for it should have given it away by itself alone. It began innocently enough and just slid right off into Strangeland somewhere along the way. Well, eccentric is one thing but around the time that Fink called up Audrey for help (well, shortly after that) it passed that dreaded signpost that everyone hears about and barreled off into the Twilight Zone at full speed.
Still, it's good! T"