Barton Fink
| Year: | 1991 |
| Production Co: | Circle Films |
| Studio: | 20th Century Fox |
| Director: | Joel Coen |
| Producer: | Joel Coen/Ethan Coen |
| Writer: | Ethan Coen |
| Cast: | John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, John Polito, Steve Buscemi, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub |
The Coens became more mainstream as their career progressed, with their Oscar-worthy No Country For Old Men was a world away from this Lynchian head-trip. The tale of neurotic, New York playwright Barton (Turturro) who moves to Los Angeles to work on a screenplay is slow, black and weird as he finds an assortment of strange characters and goings-on in his hotel.
Diehard Coen fans will love it, but it's their most abstract and least funny, a blend of off-the-wall characterisations and a strange tangle of relationships and circumstances that don't really go anywhere.