Storyline

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 distracts him even further from his task.

Plot Keywords

writer's block, magical realism, black humor, film industry, surrealism, 1940s, surprise ending, absurdism, hotel, writer, screening room, scream, restroom, restaurant, premarital sex, police detective, play, package, new york city, new job

Short Review

It's at its best when young Barton Fink simply stares at a picture of a bathing beauty contemplating the ocean -- a Hollywood dream.

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