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Christopher Murney, David Warrilow, I.M. Hobson, John Goodman, John Mahoney
Set in 1941, the story focuses on a New York playwright who moves to a seedy L.A. hotel and suffers from writers'' block after being recruited to write a wrestling movie for Wallace Beery.
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This is the Coen brothers finest film in my opinion, its certainly my favourite. Its been a huge influence on modern cinema, and Ive seen it been ripped off countless times! As close to perfect film making as you can get! Brilliant.
Odd occurrence sets off a strange chain of events: Coen brother's bread and butter - only this time it's a tale of Faust done as only Joel and Ethan could do it. And oh yes, there will be blood.
Slow paced gem with career defining performances from Turturro and Goodman. Cracking script full of memorable one-liners is complimented by a wonderful atmosphere at the hotel generated by well crafted sets and a haunting score.
reminded me a lot of adaptation - in that things stop making sense near the end - but that is kind of what makes it unique.
wow what a great movie 2 watch...ive just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch...its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie....i think that meagen fay, judy davis, jon polito, john goodman, john mahoney, john turturro, i.m h...( read more)
As dull as watching wallpaper peel. Oh wait, that's part of the movie.
Portions of this film did strike me as brilliant, and as always I appreciate the talent of the Coens. But there's just a lot of this film that doesn't make sense to me, and a story with such heavy allegory ...( read more)
I love the Cohan brother?s movies. This was fantastic a classic Cohan brother?s movie.
The Coen Brother's best movie in my opinion. Full of allegories and metaphors that make you think: "genius!"
