Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
- hotel
- screenplay
- mass murder
- movie business
- screenwriter
- neighbor
- los angeles
- california
- neo-noir
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Turturro
Barton Fink
John Goodman
Charlie Meadows
Judy Davis
Audrey Taylor
Michael Lerner
Jack Lipnick
- John Mahoney — W.P. Mayhew
- Tony Shalhoub — Ben Geisler
- Jon Polito — Lou Breeze
- Steve Buscemi — Chet
- David Warrilow — Garland Stanford
- Richard Portnow — Detective Mastrionotti
- Christopher Murney — Detective Deutsch
- I.M. Hobson — Derek
- Meagen Fay — Poppy Carnahan
- Lance Davis — Richard St. Claire
- Harry Bugin — Pete
- Directed
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Written
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,922 ratings
- Studio
- Working Title Films, Circle Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
