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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand, who is married to Joel. Malkovich plays Osbourne Cox, a CIA agent who, after being unceremoniously fired from his job, decides to write a memoir. Swinton plays his callous wife, Katie Cox, who is having an affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married, womanizing federal marshal played by George Clooney. A disc containing Osbourne’s memoir notes soon finds its way into the hands of two Hardbodies gym employees, Linda Litzke (McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Pitt). Linda, desperate for life-changing plastic surgery, masterminds a plan to sell...

Author: By Claire J. Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burn After Reading | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...Osborne Cox (John Malkovich)--out of the agency. In revenge, Osborne starts composing his memoirs, a computer disc of which falls into the hands of two gym employees: lovelorn Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and her goofball pal Chad Feldheimer (Pitt). Linda is having an affair with federal Marshal Harry Pfarrer (Clooney), who's also been servicing Osborne's icy wife (Tilda Swinton). When Chad and Linda contact Osborne to return the disc, Harry stumbles into the deal. Plot thickens; nooses tighten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baffled After Seeing | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Harry Pfarrer looks much more successful. After all, he is played by last-matinee-idol Clooney, has been screwing Cox's icy-beautiful wife (Tilda Swinton) and recently emerged from 20 years in the Secret Service "without ever discharging my weapon" - which is as sure a clue at the firearm of the wall in the first act of an Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baffled by Burn After Reading | 8/31/2008 | See Source »

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