Burn After Reading

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Call Number: Blu-ray Comedy Burn
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy Burn	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult A/V 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Comedy Burn	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Special features: Finding the Burn; DC insiders run amuck; welcome back, George.
George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt.
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains that it contains classified government information. Along with his fellow employee, Linda Litzke, he intends to use the disc to blackmail Osbourne. When blackmailing him fails, Linda decides to take the information to the Russian embassy. At the embassy, she hands the disc over to the Russians, promising that she will give them more information. Linda and Chad don't have any more information, so they decide to break into Cox's house. This brings about a series of events that no one forsees.
Blu-ray; 1080p High Definition; DTS-HD 5.1 or Dolby 2.0 in English, DTS 5.1 in French.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Unique and good submitted by Ilyjtwya on July 17, 2012, 2:50am This movie has many plot lines, so you have to pay attention when you watch it. However, they all come together in a hilarious way. It is a bit of a shame that there probably are people as dumb in reality as Chad (Brad Pitt) and Linda. This was also one of those movies which became funnier each time we watched it.

Burn after reading submitted by Jacy on June 16, 2013, 6:26pm Unique movie with multiple plot lines

Burn After Reading submitted by SBNB on July 9, 2016, 7:17pm I thought it would be better than it was. That said, it was watchable. We laughed a couple times.

love it submitted by leenajong on July 17, 2016, 4:33pm We watched it several times and will watch again.

OUTSTANDING. JUST PERFECT, AS YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM THE COHENIM submitted by Tassos on March 12, 2023, 6:22pm Finally, after having to watch (on fast forward after they became really dumb) two moronic teen comedies, one for adults. You know it will be good, if the Cohen Brothers had anything to do with it. DO NOT MISS.

Just finished it. The only problem is, I wished it would go on for another couple hours, it was so good!

And I saw it 15 years after it was released. It lost NONE of its bite or relevance.