Burn After Reading

While a discontented fitness center employee (Frances McDormand) in Washington, D.C., works with a moronic gym instructor (Brad Pitt) and her unsuspecting smitten manager (Richard Jenkins) to blackmail a canned, alcohol-bingeing, condescending CIA analyst (John Malkovich) with his own memoirs to pay for a series of cosmetic surgeries in this hilarious, well-crafted, twist-filled, well-acted, clever, delightfully witty, star-studded (J.K. Simmons, David Rasche, Dermot Mulroney, et al.) Coen brother satire, an inventive, bed-hopping U.S. marshal (George Clooney) inadvertently gets mixed up in the money-raising shenanigans when he cheats on his book-touring wife (Elizabeth Marvel) and his mistress (Tilda Swinton).
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